Theme development

Hello all you Drupals! :)

I have long time been wondering about how few and unattractiv themes you can download here at drupal.org. Is there any other places where I can get some other?

I was also wondering about how hard it is to make your own theme, building out from another (like Kubrick from Andreas01), and how hard it is to do?

Happy new year to you all... :)

- Anthrazit

I mounted a drupal 5 site and trying to upgrading my theme.
I saw that secondary links, slogan & mission not displaied on my site.
I mounted garland theme but it has the same result.

This is my problem:
[code]
print $site_slogan
print $mission
print theme('links', $secondary_links, array('class' =>'links', 'id' => 'subnavlist'))
[/code]

Something is changed?
Thanks to all

In the past I've used the Firefox web developer toolbar to tune my css but it doesn't seem to be working with drupal 5.x. When I try to edit the CSS most of the CSS is stripped from the drupal site and I can't do my usual WYSIWYG editing.

I'm using Firefox 2 on Windows XP if that makes any difference.

Any ideas? Should I look for another tool for editing?

I hope I got your attention. I look at the good looking and customised sites made with Drupal in the site showcase and am wondering, Isnt it possible for the guys that created those sites to write a book or manual(for sale), on customising templates, drupal site designs and structuring? Every other thing from installation to module and snippet integration, are pretty straightforward and easy. The only challenge is how to make the site look exactly like one wants. Block placements that are not the typical three colunm site structure. Any contributions, here will be helpful.

Re: http://drupal.org/node/67188

I want more flexibility in sitewide date formats--namely, I want to kill the time on the "short" date format because it's too long.

One person suggests doing this through theming on another thread I link above. However, I'm not sure how well this addresses my problem--I don't merely want to change the format of node timestamps; I want to change the "short date" everywhere--whenever a module calls format_date($timestamp,'small');. (E.g., in the Date column of the watchdog table.) In short, I wish I could set the "short date format" under admin/settings dynamically to whatever I want, rather than being restricted to the available drop box suggestions.

Now, the quick fix would be to just add another option to the date formats arrays, as another person suggests in the thread above. However, I'd like to avoid hacks to the core, even tiny ones.

hi !
I wanted to use Views to display inline thumbnails of some products like that

img1 | img2 | Img3

img4 | img5 | img6

etc.

But I've just discovered it's impossible to select which fields should appear on a teaser view, is it true ?
I've tried a List View but of course the content is displayed as blocks elements.

img1

img2

img3

Do you think there could be an alternative ? Maybe a hack of the code ?

Thank you for your help ;)