Theme development

We're looking to revamp our user profile page to more of a social networking type feel (more emphasis on groups & buddy lists). Can anyone here point me to some particularly good examples of Drupal sites that do this?

Here's an example of our current page: http://www.yourmtb.com/user/drumdance

TIA,
dd

Hi Drupal Community. :)

Before posting I used few times the search engine to know if it's a known problem but I couldn't find anything similar. Sorry in advance if this is not true.

I developed a theme for phptemplate with the following node.tpl.php:

This post may be a bit premature as I am still trying to get my head around Drupal in general...

I wish to create a customized theme that looks somethink like this. (logo and navigation, secondary nav and graphic/photo/flash box, and content below in three columns.)

http://www.nvision-ny.com/temp/example_template.jpg

I think where I am stuck is how to control the structural parts of layout of the home page, secondary pages and back pages within a theme.

Does anyone know where I can find the code for the output which renders when you click on the "create content" link in the navigation block?

the code renders like this:

Choose the appropriate item from the list:

blog entry
A blog is a regularly updated journal or diary made up of individual posts shown in reversed chronological order. A blog is tightly coupled to the author so each user will have his 'own' blog.
forum topic
Create a new topic for discussion in the forums.
page
If you want to add a static page, like a contact page or an about page, use a page.
poll
A poll is a multiple-choice question which visitors can vote on.
story
Stories are articles in their simplest form: they have a title, a teaser and a body, but can be extended by other modules. The teaser is part of the body too. Stories may be used as a personal blog or for news articles.

and the page source code looks like this:

<!-- begin content -->Choose the appropriate item from the list:<dl><dt><a href="/?q=node/add/blog" title="Add a new blog entry.">blog entry</a></dt><dd>A blog is a regularly updated journal or diary made up of individual posts shown in reversed chronological order. A blog is tightly coupled to the author so each user will have his 'own' blog.</dd><dt><a href="/?q=node/add/forum" title="Add a new forum topic.">forum topic</a></dt><dd>Create a new topic for discussion in the forums.</dd><dt><a href="/?q=node/add/page" title="Add a new page.">page</a></dt><dd>If you want to add a static page, like a contact page or an about page, use a page.</dd><dt><a href="/?q=node/add/poll" title="Add a new poll.">poll</a></dt><dd>A poll is a multiple-choice question which visitors can vote on.</dd><dt><a href="/?q=node/add/story" title="Add a new story.">story</a></dt><dd>Stories are articles in their simplest form: they have a title, a teaser and a body, but can be extended by other modules. The teaser is part of the body too. Stories may be used as a personal blog or for news articles.</dd></dl><!-- end content -->

There are a lot of '_'properties (like _width) in css files of some themes. But for what does it need? It's not a w3c standard (validator say so)... Mayby, you can give a link, where I can find some information abot it. Thanks.

Hi folk

I just committed (I think), the first beta release of my Blue Marine hack, the Foliage theme...

http://drupal.org/project/foliage

I guess, the files for download will be packaged overnight - this CVS thing is a bit puzzling for a noob windows user like myself.

Comments are welcome
Bjarne