Theme development

I am completely new to Drupal, i dont even have a single drupal site running due to the fact that i'm trying to learn how to make a custom theme site.

i have been playing with drupal for a while now so i have a solid grip on the admin side of drupal but i still have very little power over creating custom themes.

so my question to you guys is how long did it take you to be able to create custom themes that are not based off existing themes.

and what tutorial could you recomend for a starter like me, other than handbook, to learn how to make custom themes?

I would like to find out if anyone can assist me in moving the login box into the Logo area on Garland.

look at http://www.dieinter.net/devel/drupal on the top-right corner you'll see the Login dialog in the header region.
I would like to move the Username and Password boxes into the blue section (more or less 50 pixels lower than what it is now) below the "suggestions?" primary link, and above the "recent blog posts" block.

Stylized Beauty is a port of super j man's template of the same name which hosted on OSWD. This template has been ported to Drupal 5.0 by ThemeBot. You can add dropcaps to the first letter in a paragraph by enabling full html during posting and spanning the letter with the class .dropcap. Happy holidays!

Theme Details:

Hello all,

I am running 4.7.4 with using cck, imagefield and imagecache. I've got everything running as advertised but I have a question regarding adding a CSS Class selector.

Here is my code:

<?php print theme('imagecache', 'actor_mainimage', $field_photo[0]['filepath'], 'class="myclass"'); ?>

I would like it to come out like this:
<img src="path/to/imagecache/image" alt="tag" title="tag" class="myclass">

How: graphical icons for Navigation Menu entries ?

Hello all:

Any suggestions on how to easily add graphical icons (images) to my Navigation Menu entries (similar to Yahoo.com) ?

Using new Garland Template, on 4.7.3

Thanks. GARRY

Hey,

Currently I am busy with the development of a new website, but I am not totally happy about the look of all kinds of pages. I want by example to give the profile page a diffrent look, and I want the forum to look diffrently then now. I also want to give a special kind of layout for certain types of content. Is this possible?

Best Regards,

Bojhan