Theme development

i want to customize a plain php theme. it outputs every html code like this:
$output .= "\n";
$output .= "

i did what's said in http://drupal.org/node/18151 but still all dreamweaver see is plain theme file. so i have two questions:

1. how can i extract pure html out of this plain php theme file?
2. after customizing how can i output pure html into plain php theme file?

Thanks

Hey all,

I and several others on my team have been constantly trying to figure out how to modify themes in a simple way, yet we're not getting any luck thus far. Would anyone be able to help?

Essentially, we're looking to transfer http://qahc.org.au/preview into Drupal (it's raw html at the moment). The actual features, such as discussion boards are no problem and are implemted easily. It's just getting the Drupal site to actually /look/ like that.

Hey folks, I'm trying to develop a theme and there is one piece of code that I cannot for the life me isolate in order to change/modify.

Here is the code as it comes from my veiw source:

I just noticed that my RSS feed is outputtng very short teasers for each item in the feed (check out my feed; http://www.antisoc.net/rss.xml). I'm using flexinode, so I assume that might be the problem. I had a similar problem when it came to actually displaying nodes on the website itself. I got around the issue by doing some custom node-based themeing and I utilized a trim script (from the summarize phpTemplate snippet here).

We are looking to hire a Drupal expert to help us create a custom theme. If you are interested please send me an email (reich.robert@gmail.com.)

thanks

Hey guys

I'm quite sure all this stuff is really easy so I'm going to blame placenta brain for a) not being able to figure it out and b) not being able to find it after searching (probably using stupid keywords ;)

Anyways:

1. my forum is kitted out with flatforum, and alternating colours are working nicely. However I would like the original post to have a white background rather than the alternating backgrounds like the comments have. Can this be done?

2. The next and previous forum post links are appearing directly under the post and above the user's signature. Is it possible to move it under the user's signature and above the $links?

3. Is there a way to stop edited comments moving to the bottom of the thread? Seems a bit silly to me to take it out of context. Otherwise I'm going to have to turn off editing and while it might be great for purposes of integrity (preventing people from changing the context of the post etc) I think the users might be upset if they suddenly aren't allowed to edit their posts :) (trying to make the drupal forums look appealing to an entire community that's being shunted over from their nice safe phpbb).

And while I'm on the subject of editing, if we don't turn it off people want to see one of thoser revision mark things of the "Last edited by [whoever]. Edited [x] times in total." type nature. There a module for this? I thought allowing people to view revisions on nodes would do the trick but apparently not.