Theme development

Hey guys,

First of all ... Hi 2 all ...
I'm new on drupal.

A friend of me has a site which is working on Drupal, but its design looks really bad.
Now he asked me if I can make a new design for him.

I'm a webdesigner (html, flash etc), but I'm totally new on blog sites and Drupal.

my experience with png files is they show 5 different colors in 5 different browsers, a nightmare. I just want to use a gif but have no idea how. I see that my them calls $logo but from where? Or how do I change it? thanks!

In my user profile I use a custom field named field_country, which is actually a list of countries. (like descibed here: http://drupal.org/node/35728)
This field is part of the registration process.

Now I'd like to set up a view getting all nodes submitted by authors/users from the country they selected.

I want to change the display of tabbed menu items to block images and text (like in aquasoft theme).

As such I wanted to access the menu_primary_local_tasks() function (which lives in includes/menu.inc) within template.php, then to walk through the array and make the changes.

How can I get access to that function in template.php?

I noticed that the aquasoft developers were able to access menu_primary_links() in there with no "include_once" or other visible means of connection.

Please can someone help me….

I am trying to understand how and why certain sections within admin extend beyond the actual width I have specified in the parent containers. The header, left block and content in total are 800px, but certain forms and tables in admin stretch beyond the specified size and I don’t understand why. I have looked at the drupal.css but have not been able to locate the problem. I would really appreciate some help.

Hello

We're making a site, using Drupal of course, with a lot of custom modules.

We have now a little problem to find the best way to make our layout.

For example, we want a page to display