Theme development

I'm interested in setting up a group site with a theme similar to Ning. Here's an example: http://drumdancesgroup.ning.com/

Has anyone done anything like this? Any suggestions on how best to start?

I am running a site on drupal 4.7

I have customized the theme. I have divided the login section from the rest of the page.
The login theme is just a left site(print $sidebar_left;) bar with no content(print $content;).

Every thing works fine, except for the error message. There is non. So if i try to login and i fail to login the login screen is the same. No error message.

Hello,

I tried getting used to using Smarty for theme development but I am not really sure if I am doing the right thing. Is it correct to define the variables in the smarty.engines-file? Is there a good tutorial somewhere to check how to use smarty with drupal?

Thanks a lot
Chris

http://drupal.org/node/63422

I've used the above snippet to display all users belonging to a certain role.
The user names are longer than the width of the resulting table. Making the table bigger doesn't change a thing because the actual data that goes in the table is cut off like "username..."

Guess i need to change the following code

$output .= theme('table', $header, $rows);
$output .= theme('pager', NULL, 50, 0);

to look like

I have added two regions before the content and after the content to display a text line or an affiliate add or whatever else I like.

  <?php print $block1; ?>

    <?php print $content; ?>

  </div><!--main-->
  <?php print $block2; ?>

However block2 will show up below all comments and even below the add comment text field. Most people won't scroll that far, so I was wondering if there was a way to add a region after the content but before all the comments?

Hi everyone,

Has anybody tried to adapt the theme Artificial Intelligence to Drupal, or any other from http://www.solucija.com/templates/ for that matter?
http://www.solucija.com/templates/demo/Artificial_Intelligence/

The theme looks great but I don´t know where to start to adapt it. Needless to say I am no programmer. :(

Thanks for the help.

Michael