Theme development

i have follow the instruction here:
http://drupal.org/node/11637

after submit my work to CVS, i hope to update the project page with the screenshot. although i use the >img<, but the image don't show out...
http://drupal.org/project/contented7

hope someone can help me about this ;-)

Hopefully I'm not repeating a forum topic. I'm planing to create a new theme for drupal 4.7 using php template. Is the best approach to start from scratch or should I use the default theme and develop around it?

Thanks

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!