Theme development

If you view my site with IE, you will notice quite a large empty space between the logo and the top-links (contact | tag cloud | navigation).

In Firefox everything looks great and this space does not appear.

I would really appreciate any help in finding out why this is happening.

(I am using a modified version of the Chameleon theme. The only things I modified are colours, background images, width of the content and sidebar areas. This space was there even before the changes.)

Thanks.

Hi,

I'm new to Drupal and CMS'es. I am familiar with php/MySQL (not an expert in any way). Furthermore I am very good at CSS and XHTML (this isn't bragging - I just want you to put yourself in my shoes for a while..).

I have this site that I want to make using Drupal. The layout is clear, see the links below:

(note that you cannot click the links here, it's just the layout, no functionality yet..)

On the front page of my web site, I'm want to display a couple of content blocks. These blocks should not link to an inside page by default. Plus, I'd like to display a flexinode field without the title and allow the content creator to format the text to display.

Can this be done, if so how?

I can't seem to change the background color of the grey boxes that show as the module config area, etc.

See small image of what I am talking about: here Pictures worth a 1000 words.

I did try to search here for the answer, but I was unable to find anything exactly.

Thanks,

-Eric

I have two active themes: bluemarine and friendselectric.

I've defined the template.php files each with different regions. (Code is below). When I go to assign blocks, the two templates show the same regions for the blocks, as if they're running off of the same template.php file.

I turned off caching, manually reloaded, used FireFox tools to empty caches and destroy cookies, things like that. Resaved template.php files, checked functions.

Any ideas?

----

function friendselectric_regions() {
return array(
'left' => t('left sidebar'),
'content' => t('content'),
'header' => t('header'),
'footer' => t('footer'),
'adminmenu' => t('adminmenu'),

);
}

function bluemarine2_regions() {
return array(
'floater' => t('floater'),
'top_banner' => t('top banner'),
'right' => t('right sidebar'),
'left' => t('left sidebar'),
'content' => t('content'),
'header' => t('header'),
'footer' => t('footer'),

'calendartab' => t('calendartab'),
'weathertab' => t('weathertab'),
'pollstab' => t('pollstab'),
'archivestab' => t('archivestab'),

'searchtab' => t('searchtab'),
'rsstab' => t('rsstab'),
'logintab' => t('logintab'),
'emaileditiontab' => t('emaileditiontab'),

'recentforumtab' => t('recentforumtab'),
'recentblogtab' => t('recentblogtab'),

I am creating a new theme for a development website and I am using the nice menus module in Drupal. The website is located at http://dlportal.humboldt.edu . In firefox the menus display properly (as I intended, they drop down, and the submenus expand to the right), but in internet explorer, they all drop down to the right. Does anyone know why this happens? I know i.e. has issues with css, but I do not know to what extent yet. I dont know any css, and I am trying to learn, but I have to get this fixed before my deadline, and I dont think I will make it. The CSS code is below, and I appreciate the help that you all are willing to give.


/***
*
* dlportal theme style sheet
* Modified from: "box_grey" theme
* Modified by: Erik Mendes
* Filename: drupal/themes/dlportal/style.css
*
***/

/* Outer-most table framing and sizing */
#maintable {
margin-top: 1em;
margin-bottom: 1em;
background: #fff;
background-image:url(lampfade.gif);
background-position: bottom;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
/* background-attachment: fixed; */
width: 800px;
border: none;
}
body {
color: #000;
/* Navy blue backgroung */
background: #000044;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;
font-size: 84%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}

/***
*
* Front page styles
* Erik Mendes
*
***/
img.dean-message {
float: left;