Theme development

First of all, read NEWBIE all over this post.

I've read most of the posts (so I probably missed the ONE with my answer) about themes and Drupal. But, I still don't get it.

My old approach - Photoshop/Illustrator the graphics and layout. Switch to Dreamweaver - slice and dice then add functionality. Voila! A website. I understand this part.

Out on the Drupal frontier - I get (I think) the Drupal mindset and can set up nodes, menus, views.... I've switched themes that I have downloaded from drupal.org. A major learning curve, but well worth the effort.

Hi,

I have overwritte my node.tpl.php of one of my flexinode. I rename the file to node node-flexinode-1.tpl.php. I have remove the variable $content and replace it by each of my variable. This way I have better flexibility on the theme of my flexinode.

Hi all... Here I come again with another problem with floating boxes.
As long as I've arranged the right menu bar as a floating box, now I discover another problem.
All the images have been defined as float too: and right now this is how it works:
the image (as a float box) goes just under the floating right menu block.

here's the screenshot.

Hello Drupallers!

I've got "Site Menu Item" (basicaly menu)
-S.M.I
----About
---------sub 1
-----------subsub
---------sub 2
----Contacts
---------sub 1
---------sub 2

Here the code that renders About section.

$menuhtml = theme_menu_tree(37);
print $menuhtml;

It render About section ('cause it's 37th id)
Q: How can I implement in my template that this number "id" depends on menu sectioin where I am now?

I hope this is the right place to post this
i am trying to write a little calculator for our shopping process, what i want the user to be able to do is take a product for sale and customize it; specifying color and size etc, thus altering the cost of the product in the end when submitted to the shopping cart-
can i do this with drupal? and the newbie in me needs to know, uh, sort of how also :)

I'm learning how to theme different sections of my site with phptemplate. I want the gallery.module part of my site to have more width. Right now, I'm using internet center which uses two layouts--the "regular" one with a wide right sidebar and the "admin" one with a narrow right sidebar.

I'd be happy either

--using the admin one (which just uses it's own css div tags that are different from the regular ones).
or
--making a new one with no sidebars