Theme development

After reading this article:

http://koivi.com/ie-png-transparency/

I tried to implement his solution, but am having no luck. I'm not sure where you would place the tags he outlines.

I hate using PNG-8 because the result is just not clean enough. The transparent PNG-24 I use look great in any browser except IE, which has the alpha bug.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how/where to implement this guy's suggestions, or have any suggestions/recommendations on how to implement PNG-24 correctly?

how to get image is on pseudo 1 column and the body text on another (blank space between the images

|IMAGE| text..text
space>>text..text
space>>text..text
|IMAGE| text..text
space>>text..text
space>>text..text
|IMAGE| text..text
|IMAGE| text..text

add and play with this on your theme's style.css to the relevant places

Probably not the best place to put this but I'm not sure where else it could go.

I am trying to move the poll selects to the right rather then the right. I would guess this is done with the forms api. But, upon examing the code for themeing to throw a callback in the template.php file for the theme I can't figure out what to change.

I'm starting with the theme for the block poll. I am not sure how to change the $form['choice'] for the choices to show up on the right. Any ideas?

$output .= '

My new Drupal-based web site is almost at Release Candidate 1.0: http://www.momsmedicinechest.com/.

I'm hoping to finalize the theme design this week. I'm stuck on a few items, which I'm hoping the Drupal community can help with! :)

• My original design for the Book-of-the-Month page is here: http://cklester.com/newsite/mmc.php?page=bookofmonth

  The current version is here: http://www.momsmedicinechest.com/book_of_the_month

  What do I need to do to get my original design implemented in Drupal? Note the float(ed):right Book List and that the content is the currently-selected book review article. I probably just need to know what file to modify (is there a *.tpl.php file I can edit?). Any information will be helpful.

• I want to insert some Google ads (the 234x60 half-banner) into the article lists on the site (for example, http://www.momsmedicinechest.com/moms_home_remedies) (mocked-up functional sample here: http://cklester.com/newsite/mmc.php?articles=babycorner). The Google ads should appear as the 4th through 6th items, then the site content list would continue. Questions? :)
• I'd like to have an Articles page where all site content is listed (like this: http://www.momsmedicinechest.com/articles/), but I need it to be sortable by date, title, and category (right now it's just sorted by date, descending).

Now, I know Drupal makes all this possible... I just need some hints as to where to go from here. :)

-currently you can place/assign many blocks to content, or footer regions..
(i'll give example of footer region)
-but..... they ordered vertically as below

_______________________footer_____________________________________
|_______________________footer block1______________________________|
|_______________________footer block2______________________________|
|_______________________footer block2______________________________|
but most of the blocks not too wide by default, so its waste of space and visually not appealing...NO good!