Theme development

The snippet below prints out a list of nodes in a particular taxonomy term in a format like list:

Node title
» by User

OK, super stupid question, I know this right out of the block. But my brain has entirely locked up on where I specify the number of items to display for certain blocks. In this case, the "recent blog posts" block. I go to blocks>configure and it's just user-specific viewing and page-specific viewing options. No simple "display 5 or 10 or whatever." And I KNOW I've set this before. I just can't remember where. Dumb dumb dumb. Any help??

I am trying to get Ocadia to do the following:

1.) Display primary and secondary links
2.) Display a search box
3.) Display breadcrumbs
4.) Possibly display left *and* right sidebars

For 1, I noticed that its page.tpl.php only has the following code:

I'm having trouble getting my head around the following:

is it possible to create a function within template.php to allow me to separate out each indiviual context sensitive $primary element so that I can apply individual styling and positioning to them?

Ideally I'd like to be able to style each element of $primary (say, view and edit on a node page) individually (not just as a '

I am using the theme andreas01, located here -> http://drupal.org/project/andreas01

It does not display correctly in IE, and was wondering if someone could take a look at and see why? I'm a template noob. My site is digitaltraveler.biz

Thanks

I am a salesman and construction worker and know little or nothing about Drupal. A friend set up my site and gave me a few instructions and now I am own my own trying to wing it with some success. I can add pictures, blocks, pages, webforms, and I can go into cPanel to upload stuff but just can't get into that front page.