Theme development

I'd like a theme that uses what I will call "drop down menus". What I have envisioned is on the Epson site:
http://www.epson.ca/cgi-bin/ceStore/index.jsp

Where you roll over 'primary' menu items to reveal subpages below them.

The way I do it now is have a block with links pertinant to a primary link that appears only when a visitor clicks on a primary link. It is very clumbsy and I get complaints all the time how poor navigation is on my site.

I made my Drupal site locally on my computer and it works fine but as soon as I put it online it becomes wayyyyy slow. It starts out ok but then it gets slower and slower untill after about 5 pages it gets so slow that it just times out after 3 minutes. I get the same result in internet explorer as in firefox. I am using Drupal 4.7. I don't have a big website but I am using a couple of modules: blog, locale, views, url-alias(I only have about 20 aliasses), webform, simple access, blocks and the standard modules. It sometimes takes minutes for a page to load...that can't be right.

Hi there.

I am struggling a lot with a custom theme for one of our clients - http://www.evesparkling.co.za/the_story

The problem is with the spacing around the content (flash & copy) - in Firefox there is a space at the top and in Internet Explorer a space at the bottom. I suspect this has something to do with the style br.clear

SRY my english :p!
How do display comments on front page.

Hi Guys

Fairly new to Drupal but loving the learning curve! I have a query I hope someone can help me with.

I'm trying to frame the mission statement in the groups with a rounded edge box.

So I think I need to tell drupal to produce the following for the mission statement within Organic Groups:

Hi,

I have a question about displaying data from one of the tables in DB in my web page, is it possible with drupal?

for example:
I have a DB table named Students and I would like to display in one of my pages all the
students that are registered to a course (and all their details as well).
in order to do that I need to query mysql and present result in some kinf of table.

I read something about the Table Manager module, any ideas?

thanks for the help,
Jeremy