Theme development

Hey guys,

I'm working with Drupal on GYSE's new website, our aims for this site are accessibility and useability, drupal is fantastic for both, what I'd like to do is be able to define background images for individual blocks, what is the easiest way to go about this?

I am pretty terrible at themeing as it goes, I can do the nuts and bolts side, just not the themeing!

I have created a block inside my module and I have included some css codes to go with the block. I could put these custom css at the end of the style.css for my current theme. Is there anywhere else I can put them if I want to keep them separate? Please let me know the normal way that I should do it in Drupal. Thanks.

How can I display the thumb and not the big picture in Author information block.

I just added the author information block to the right sidebar but instead of displaying the thumb I get the big picture.

When something is outputted to my screen, I would expect that term, tag, or text to be somewhere in the code or database. I'm having real problems finding these items though. The latest is in the Popular Content block, it says "All time:", and I would like to simply take this out, so that just the items in an unordered list are displayed. After doing several code searches through throughout the entire drupal folder, I can't find where that phrase is. Where is the bulk of the static html stored?

Ok, I am trying to setup a valid drop-down for my theme in drupal. As far as I could see this was the best *simple* valid drop-down. First let me show you that I changed the final output of the menus from this:

<ul class="menu">
    <li class="leaf"><a href="/node/5" title="">HTML</a></li>
    <li><a class="nohref">CSS</a>
        <ul class="menu">
            <li class="leaf"><a href="/node/4" title="">CSS</a></li>
            <li class="leaf"><a href="/node/10" title="">CSS Guides</a></li>
            <li class="leaf"><a href="/node/11" title="">CSS Examples</a></li>
            <li class="leaf"><a href="/node/12" title="">CSS Layouts</a></li>
            <li class="leaf"><a href="/node/13" title="">CSS Menus</a></li>
            <li class="leaf"><a href="/node/14" title="">Online CSS Tools</a></li>
            <li class="leaf"><a href="/node/15" title="">CSS Programs</a></li>
        </ul>
    </li>
</ul>

To what I wanted:

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Not sure that this is the right forum - advise me if it isn't.

I developed our site www.hcvys.info without much prior knowledge of Druapl and finished up with a very servicable product.

I used a modifed Bluemarine theme. However I decided to change the look of the site - getting too confident I guess. Loaded Newsportal theme and made it the default. I got an error reading so deleted the theme (ftp) and now the site works with no styling.