I'm making a theme for drupal 4.7 and i need to customize the user login block. I have created an overridden function phptemplate_user_login($form) in template.php and new formating in user-login.tpl.php. The problem is that it only effects elements within form tag and the form tag itself keeps unchangable. But i want to rip off id="user-login-form" (or change it to user-login) from the form tag as it brakes my layout.
I have just begun working with Drupal sites. Where can I find a clear, step-by-step guide or instructions to making my own theme for a Drupal website? I looked through the Handbooks section. Maybe I am new to this, but there seem to be bits and pieces of things, and it looks like I have to read everything in the Handbook before I can start. I plan to read a lot of the Handbook but just wondering whether there is a step-by-step guide somewhere that either I didn't find or I didn't know.