Theme development

Hope this is the appropriate place for this post.

I would like to be able to have a random sentence pulled from a list instead of the hard wired site slogan. I realize this is kind of silly and may effect search engine results but think that it would fit with the site I am putting together. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I am pretty sure I will be using a modified bluemarine template and for sure will be using the PHPTemplate engine if that information helps.

Thanks

I'm currently using Blue Marine on my site. I like the overall set-up but have a problem with the way the pages are turning out. Most indent the first line in the first paragraph only. I can't change it so I've tried to indent any other paragraphs within the text & it won't let me do that either. How can I fix this? The other theme I was using didn't have this problem but I didn't like the overall set-up. I'm sure it's something as simple as changing a little php code but I don't know what/where/etc.

* Please Note: Very little PHP experience.

OK I have seen some of the case studies sites that use Drupal, including the featured personal site of http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/

I noticed that the login is not on this page. My question then is if a user is logged out of drupal how are they going to login back to drupal? I don't plan on having many users access my site, so I really don't want a login option on my site either, but if i were to get logged out of drupal where would I sign back in? Do I need to make some sort of page only I have the link to?

Is it possible to assign a completely separate theme for anonymous users? I am working on a site which will have 99% anonymous users. Typical drupal themes are great in that the menu systems morph to whatever the logged-in user has permissions to do, however this complexity is getting in the way of developing the theme for normal users, for example I don't need a multi-level menu system, just a simple nav bar.

What I'd like to do is use the default drupal them for Admins, and for everyone else serve them my custom theme.

Thanks,
Ivan

Using phptemplate engine we setup a customised user profile page. How can we have a link at the bottom that says print this page?

Furthermore...how can we create a custom template page that will display only specified profile_variables in a print friendly layout?

The idea is to have a link at the bottom of every custonm user_profile page with a print link that opens in a new window and has a print button/link in it.

In a nutshell, does anyone have a downloadable dark-background, three colomn, 4.7, PHP-Template based theme that I can use?

Ok, I have searched and verified that many other people have difficulties in locating a Drupal theme with a dark background. I have unsuccessfully spent many hours in hacking existing Drupal themes to get dark backgrounds and ended up with mostly dark backgrounds with gaps of white between the blocks that I cannot get rid of.

After reading the existing posts on this issue, I will hack away further at the FriendsElectric PHPTemplate theme - it is either that, or finishing the site without Drupal.

A few observations (and some ranting and raving) upon Drupal theming:

1. Theming in Drupal is simply too difficult. Many new sites have shown that a Drupal site does not have to look like something from an 'industrial age'. On the other hand it is not acceptable that days and days are spent hacking away at theming, while other CMS systems offer hundreds of downloadable themes!
2. The convention followed in the Sands theme of splitting the style sheets into colors.css, colums.css, layout.css etc. is very helpful. Maybe there should be a preferred convention, or best practice, on how to construct a theme. I would like to see themes with the purpose of being modifiable and with detailed notes. A large part of my frustration with theming is because contrary to my experience in CSS and HTML, I simply don't know why a particular Drupal theme behaves in a certain way!