Theme development

I'm using 4.7 and have added some block regions for additional sidebars (goal being that I can have 2 left or right sidebars, one of which is only visible to registered users.)

I'm sure my problem is due to the fact that I know very little about working with tables. I added 2 new regions. so I now have sidebar_left, sidebar_left2, sidebar_right, and sidebar_right2.

The problem is the new sidebars are being placed side by side instead of on top of one another. so what i'm ending up with is this:

[sidebar_left][sidebar_left2][content][sidebar_right][sidebar_right2]

where I need to have this:

[sidebar_left] [content] [sidebar_right]
[sidebar_left2] [ ] [sidebar_right2]

Theme is bluemarine, here is how i'm incorrectly displaying the sidebars.

}
if ($sidebar_left2) {


}

I'm using Drupal 4.6 and the Kubrick theme for 4.6.

I am trying to get the headerimg changed to what I created it. Here is the direct code from the style.css in the Kubrick on how to affect and change the headerimg:

/* Images */
	body	 	{ background: url(kubrickbgcolor.jpg); }
	#page		{ background: url(kubrickbg.jpg) repeat-y top; border: none; }
	#header 	{ background: url(kubrickheader.jpg) no-repeat bottom center; }
	#footer 	{ background: url(kubrickfooter.jpg) no-repeat bottom; border: none;}
			
			
/*	Because the template is slightly different, size-wise, with images, this needs to be set here
	If you don't want to use the template's images, you can also delete the following two lines. */
			
	#header 	{ margin: 0 !important; margin: 0 0 0 1px; padding: 1px; height: 198px; width: 758px; }
	#headerimg 	{ margin: 7px 9px 0; height: 192px; width: 740px; } 
/* END IMAGE CSS */
		

/* 	To ease the insertion of a personal header image, I have done it in such a way,
		that you simply drop in an image called 'personalheader.jpg' into your /images/
		directory. Dimensions should be at least 760px x 200px. Anything above that will
		get cropped off of the image. */
		
/*	#headerimg 	{ background: url(personalheader.jpg) no-repeat top;} */	

I have gone through and created a picture called personalheader.jpg. Now, there is no "images" folder in my Drupal install so I was just assuming he meant to use whatever folder you store your images in. I modded the css to look like this:

I have just started looking at the code for themes, a I intend on making my own, and I noticed $header, I checked on my site and it never displays anything for $header, just wondered what the use of it is.

Its on line 28 on the blue marine page.tpl.php file

<td colspan="2"><div><?php print $header ?></div></td>

Cheers Nick

I have been working with Drupal for about a week now - obviously not very long. I'm working with the FriendsElectric theme and am making some modifications to it because of a template that I'm using for my client. I would like to center the top links that appear in the header. I can't seem to get the CSS working to accomplish this. I'm hoping that someone else has worked with this theme and has done this same thing.

THANKS!

I've found a great problem. The textareas in 4.7 are replaced with javascript for a fancy resizable textarea but, trying to modify them via css won't work for me...

The problem I have may be a bigger problem.
the "main" div (for content) is a normal block box
but on the right I've got a floating box (right side pane).

I had an idea! I was wondering if it would be possible to automatically change themes based on the time of day (i.e. day and night)? I don't really know where to start on that, but it sounds simple enough. Maybe I'm barking up a huge tree, but if anyone could give me some idea, that would be great!