Theme development

hello

how can add a banner to drupal themes. is there a template file that i can manipulate but can't seem to find?

thanks.

How can I access the shopping cart through a drupal variable?
Maybe that isn't the correct question but what need exactly is to do
something like:

	print $shopping_cart;

I suppose this should be available to be done the same way its available to
print the content, sidebars, footer and whatever else drupal allows.

If you see the page.tpl.php (for example in the bluemarine theme) you will come across:

Hi experts,

sorry - I didn't find the answer for my problem in the forum.

I'm changing the theme for a drupal 4.7 Website, using

How would I customize my code in my page.tpl.php in order to have it display a particular template if a page (node) has a particular taxonomy attached to it. IE: if node/43 had the taxonomy "music" how could I make it display a different template?

This is one Idea I batted around, and while it doesn't seem to break the design, it also doesn't work either:

Hi everyone,

I've tried to figure out how to do this, but I'm no good with PHP.

I want a corner on the top left edge of the first block on the right and a corner on the bottom left corner of the bottom block on the right. In other words, it will sort of look like a single block rather than say 3 or 4 with white breaks between them.

How do I do this, regardless of how many blocks there are.

Only the top of Article links are clickable. I cant figure out why? Here is a flash video (~3.5mb) of problem. Its boring but it shows the problem

http://www.shady.nu/play/clicks.html