Theme development

I started with chameleon and developed my own simple plain PHP theme.

I would like to add my own custom configuration item that shows up under "Toggle display". Now, I actually KNOW how to do it, but it required me to add some code in system.module / system_view_general() for the new variable as well as in my theme directory.

Of course, playing with the system module means that my change will get blown away if I upgrade Drupal. So I'd like to do things the "nice" way and keep it all within my theme directory, or at worst with a special module that implements this.

I try to copy and paste the double arrows >> into my template, but all I get is a question mark block. I've tried to insert » and » for the 'right angle quote', but I get a slightly differenent character that has fat ends. Anybody know how to produce the breadcrumb >> character?

I'm working with the e-journal module. I've been trying to override one of the themeable functions, but every time I add the function into template.php I end up with the site's front page going blank (the page should be effected by the newly themed function).

Most of the ideas I've been able to find by searching through the forums related to not enough memory for PHP. I already have the memory limit at 24MB, so I don't think that's my problem.

I've added this to the template.php:

Hi,

On my site's frontpage, I have some news items and a block. The contents of the block is simply text. What I want to do is to config Drupal to show the block first then the news items. I have tried changing the weight of the block to -10, but it did not work.
So how does one change the order of content of the frontpage?

Thanks a lot!

Is it possible to open an image at the original size in a new window from gallery?
I've got a gallery with large images, i wanted to open them in a pop up window. Is it possible?
Thanks, Aress

Hi

I'd like to port one of the WordPress themes to Drupal (AdSense minded theme if it matters). I wonder if there are any kind of tutorial, guidlines or even tools for such a porting?