Theme development

I want to have a popup window that pulls information from the database without having to make connection strings and such, I think the easiet thing to do is to have a node that doesn't get themed in anyway shape or form, so I have it display only the content of the node without a header, sidebar(s), title, tabs, message, or help area's. What do you guys think would be the easiet way to get this accomplished?

You see the adjustable doo-hickey in this site's the comment textarea? How do you get that to work?

The only way I can get that feature is by turning on the TinyMCE texteditor but I don't want to do that. It's easier for my users to just stick to the old "HTML TAGS ALLOWED" routine. Yet, not having to customize the textarea rocks.

So ... ahem ... HELP! Tell me how to do this!

Thanks,
Liza Sabater
Chief Drupal Diva ;)
www.culturekitchen.com

I have a baseline drupal site, with a plain theme. Now, I need to theme this site for several different sites and was looking for a better way of dealing with the template.php file for each theme. I could certainly search/replace ("theme_" replaced by "newtheme_") template.php for each theme, but I'd rather have a default set of theming functions that each site falls back on.

Is this possible?

Thinking about it, seems like I'd have to put another layer ontop of the default drupal theme functions.

Thanks.

List of Tableless, CSS based skeleton page templates -basic stuff.
A reference for theme design starters from bottom up or alteration.
there are many other references also http://drupal.org/project/raw

I found this one as handy access

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/layouts/

also
css menu's forms etc.
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/

HI ALL,

i wanted to create tabbed menu as it comes in ww.drupal.org site??? anyone has idea how to achieve it.I would appriciate if any one can guide me or give me some pointers to explore how to get the tabbed menu items on drupal driven site.

hoping for positive reply

Regards,
Priti

Hey there,

New to Drupal and CMS in general. Have to say I think that its pretty sweet. So I playing around with it. At the moment I'm trying to make the front page display the newest users instead of the various stories.

I'm thinking that I have to change something in page.tpl.php. As far as I can see I need to change $content. I'm thinking of creting a custom SQL statement that queries the database for the users. But will this generate various pages automatically as the default. For example first ten newest users will be on page 1 then the next ten on page 2 etc.