Theme development

This is kind of a re-post, but I've not gotten an answer, so I thought I'd try in this category. I have some pages that take a while to return and I'd like to display the header, left sidebar and title of the new page to show folks that progress is being made, but my problem is this: Flushing never seems to do any good.

I've tried adding this:

Hello!

Im trying to do a horizontal menu with the menu block not the primary links, and I just need one row with links, how do I do that?

the menu is in li and its now vertical, I cant figure out how to do it horizontal!

Please help! Best regards owall.

This is my first site in Drupal and I am really struggling. One of the main problems I have got is with the secondary menu and all the ULs, LIs, leafs, collapsed etc.

What I need is a menu without any of the little symbols to the left and instead I am going to use a background colour or image on the lists to denote the level. That means the colour/image has to fit 100% width of the block (block is fixed width and is in the left sidebar).

Meta is such a great theme I am desperate to use it in Drupal V5. But the top left navigation links just show as

Array | Array | Array | Array | Array | Array (see http://www.22plus3.co.uk/drupalv5a/ )

any ideas how I can fix this please??

Thanks

Joe

I'm trying to align the "Author Name" and the "Content" on the same line which looks like this:

Author Name | Text Text Text Text Text 
Text Text Text Text Text Text Text 
Text Text Text Text Text Text Text 

so i used this code on node.tpl.php.

<?php print $name ?> | <?php print $content ?>

but it appears like this:

I'm trying to theme my own teaser view layouts for event and forum topic node types. Here is where I learned how to do it: http://drupal.org/node/93311

Can someone point me to where I look to see what the field values are for event and forum topic nodes? That is to say, what are the variable names to use in my theme layout for things like Start Date, End Date, Body, etc...?

Thanks!

-ron