Theme development

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to add a search box to a custom theme I'm developing (my first).

I'm not using blocks because I need the search box to show up in pixel-specific locations, not generalities like left and top (Though I'm sure there is a way to do this with blocks, I'm not there yet).

I can't seem to get the search form I'm building on my frontpage template to work (the search box block I'm using on the admin page worls fine).

I would like to create theme similar to what I have at www.tcnband.com for a drupal version of the site. Any help will be greatly appreciated. To see what I have done you can go to www.tcnband.com/home. You can contact me at jamespdaniel@voyager.net if you know any way you can help. Thanks again!

I want to theme the simplenews block.
I'm just going to edit the module.
Which line/s do I edit to edit to remove the site email address from the block? I want to make this block as small as possible.

function theme_sn_form($tid, $sub=1, $unsub=1, $email='') {
$sn_form = '

How do I get access to links in, say block.tpl.php? What I want to do is spit out something along the lines of:

		<ul id="nav">
			<li id="nav-link-1"><a href=<?php print "$link['url']"; ?> <?php print "$link['description']" ?></li> 
		</ul>

I'd probably preface this with something like

This is probably really dumb, but hey, never hurts to ask. much.

How is the contact form title capitalized on drupal.org? On my sites, running 4.7.2, it's lowercase "contact" at the top. I'd like to capitalize it, or otherwise change the page title, without getting into the module itself, obviously.

I assume there's something I can do in template.php, but I'm not good enough at this yet to know what it is.

Hi,

I am currently working with the Spreadfirefox theme and curious how I would go about adding side banner graphics to the left and right of the layout without inserting them into blocks. Also is there a way to display them only on certain pages.

Thanks,

Ivan