Theme development

Hi

I'm building a freebie site for a client using 4.7 and the Burnt theme. http://www.traditionalmedicinescongress.com

It started when I caused a PHP parse error while editing a theme. The text for the search button went away so I now have a tiny button with no text in it :)

I can't tell where the string is. The theme calls it search_button_text. It doesn't look like it's in the database; I think it's some local variable. I restarted htppd and that didn't fix it. Doesn't that cause PHP to restart?

Changing themes and changing languages don't fix it.

I've been creating themes for Drupal lately... and I'm facing the problems with CSS when I've uploaded the themes and enabled it. When I change the CSS inside the webserver, my web browser doesn't immidiately apply the change. I need to wait for several weeks before the change takes effect. The other way i use is by changing the $styles and the style.css names.

Is there a way to make my change to CSS immediately takes effect to the page?

Thanks

some strange characters appear at the beginning of the source just before the document type. some editors see them as question marks some see as middle dot and some see as box character.

So looking at the instructions for theming here, I noticed that one bit of advice was "always validate to XHTML 1.0 strict."

Firefox has some tools to check this, so I did. And the page I have, doesn't validate.

However, there doesn't seem to be anything in the actual theme causing it. The error message beigns here:

Hi guys,

How can I extract the information of date in Drupal Theme, say I want to put the day or month in its own