Theme development

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

I know about the theming handbook, but its a strange mixture of everything from 4.3-5.0 and its hard to tell whats current and what is obsolete. Is there some coherent guide from the ground up teaching 5.0 techniques?

Hello I followed this page to the letter
http://drupal.org/node/52389
on how to have a admin specific theme. and its sorta works but for some reason the admin page isn't showing up like how it does in bluemarine. same colors and fonts but the postioning is off.
I have read the page and all the comments and have tried my own hacks but nothing get it to look like it does when the bluemarine theme is the default one.
I could definately use some help and can provide a picture if neccesary

I have found how to customize my search form. I have a simple question now.

I want to pick a random term from all of my taxonomy. I want to use this as a suggested 'phrase' to search.

I need a php snippet for that. I want to write a function like this :

function get_random_term() {

// database query

...

return $term;

}

I need efficient code for snappy look-up in the database. I am not very familiar with MySQL.

Thanks in advance!

Greetings- I transferred over my Drupal website using the excellent instructions drupal.org has.

But for some reason, but occasionally, bullet points or apostrophes that I transferred over end up looking like ’ and • . how can I correct this?

Thank you!

I've searched the forums already on this, and got part way there, but am still struggling to overide the "Submitted by..." part of my theme. I found out how to override the variables that are sent to the template engine, and hacked the example I found with part of line 247 on /themes/engines/phptemplate/phptemplate.engine that grep helped me find.

So far, I've added the following to template.php in my theme folder: