Theme development

I am trying to wrap my head around the concept of layouts in Omega 4. Up till now I have operated with the understanding that FEWER page.tpl.php files are a best practice. I have written all my own theme code. I am trying to transition to using omega theme. If I understand (which is questionable) Omega 4 layouts correctly each new layout is basically a new page.tpl.php.
Example:
Front page uses a layout called front-layout.tpl.php.

I would like to recreate the submenus that are shown at the demo site: http://marinelli.netsons.org/
under TAXONOMY PAGE and CAMERA.

How do they list 3 or 4 columns of links and also Bold the first row? I want to create something just like this.

Currently I can only create one column of links, I can't figure out how to have them span across columns.

Thanks for any assistance.

Hi all,

I created a subtheme however apparently, nothing is saving. Let me explain, when I click on appearance and click on settings next to my subtheme, when I make a change such as unchecking the check box to display the slideshow on the home page, and save, the change does not take effect. I even cleared the cache but still not working.

I figured it must be something to do with the subtheme folder, maybe I did something wrong when I created it. I just followed along some YouTube video.

Any helped greatly appreciated

Hi, I've just upgraded a site that I have been working on and the search results page has stopped working. Specifically, it is not rendering the html head tag or results. I am using Apache Solr search and site node search - both produce the same result. I do not have customized search-result(s).tpl.php templates - just the default ones.

Issue can be seen here:
http://72.34.43.169/search/site/

Try a search for 'foobar'

What might be causing this? Where should I look?

I tried to create a Drupal 8 child theme of Bartik. The problem is that the CSS of my child theme is loaded above the css of Bartik on all pages.

mytheme.info.yml file:

name: mytheme
type: theme
description: 'mytheme theme based on Bartik'
core: 8.x
package: custom
base theme: bartik
stylesheets:
  all:
    - css/mytheme.css

Anyone has a clue what goes wrong here?

I want to print out everything i can for the default search block in drupal so that I can add some responsive code to it. Like break the button and body of the search box down into separate columns. I found the template that has this code: