Theme development

First of all, it took me ages to type out the following diagram, so i'm hopeing one of you kind folks can help me out. :)

The diagram below shows the general layout structure of my page.tpl file. I have the Latest Forum Topics and Latest Comments currently displayed on the page in section A. However, I would like the Latest Forum Topics to display in section D and the Latest Comments to display in section E.

A                 B              C
+--------------+  +----------+  +----------+
|              |  |          |  |           |
|              |  |          |  |           |
|              |  |          |  |           |
|               |  |          |  |          |
|              |  |          |  |           |
|              |  |          |  |           |
|              |  |          |  |           |
+--------------+  +----------+  +----------+

D                        E                  F
+--------------+  +----------+  +----------+
|                    |  |                |  |              |
|                    |  |                |  |               |
|                    |  |                |  |              |
|                    |  |                |  |              |
+--------------+  +----------+  +----------+

I was wondering if someone could tell me how I can move the aforementioned Topic and Comments blocks to position them where I want them? In the admin screen I have the placement currently set for both blocks as 'content.' I was sure that there used to be a module to allow you to add extra placement areas into the admin screen, but alas I cannot find this anymore.

I am not a coder. I want to use the flatforum theme/module package to style Drupal forums. I also want to style seperately the administration pages and the user profile. I am having difficulty figuring out how to merge code snippets in the template.php file of a phptemplate engine based theme that will accomplish these goals. Among others, the following files are in the theme directory:

node-forum.tpl.php
page-admin.tpl.php
user_profile.tpl.php

I'm thinking the code for the template.php file from the flatforum theme/module package should probably stay intact. Here is the template.php file that comes with flatforum theme:

I kind of feel stupid to ask this, but I am at a loss and can't find what I am looking for. I am using the Kubrick theme and down at the bottom, there is the footer. Hardcoded in to this theme is a bit about being powered by Drupal and valid this and that and a link to email the guy who did it.

You can go in to administer and settings and add some information to the footer, but it only adds it. Where can I go to get that valid info and contact information off the footer? I feel stupid asking this as I can't find it and I know it's something simple...any help from anyone?

Hello,

Ok, I have my Drupal site working (sorry it is an intranet, so I cannot put a link to it) but I am not really up to speed on theming, so I am hoping someone out there can assist.

I am using the Blue Marine theme as my basis and I have the nice_menu module loaded. I have turned off the Secondary Links from within the theme and replaced it by using the Nice_Menu in the header and making it a down menu referencing the secondary links. This seems to work really well except that I get a horizontal line in the header which I want to remove.

So, I know there are lots of posts about getting graphical primary link and secondary link tabs like the Drupal site here has. This is not about that.

Instead, it's about the "View", "edit", and "outline" tabs that you get for a content node you have authored or have edit perimssions on. I am working on re-coloring blue-marine into some darker themes (dark blue, dark red, black, etc) and I have been able to re-color everything... except these two items. They seem to just insist on staying grey, and I can't figure out what attribute I need to create or change in CSS to change their colours.

Looking at the page source I found this:

<div class="tabs"><ul class="tabs primary">
<li class="active"><a href="/?q=node/61" class="active">view</a></li>
<li><a href="/?q=node/61/edit">edit</a></li>
<li><a href="/?q=node/61/outline">outline</a></li>
<li><a href="/?q=node/61/email">email</a></li>

</ul>
</div>

... which made me think that changing the background for ".tabs.primary" might work... or ".tabs", or ".tabs a".... However when I change the background color, I get a straight bar of that color all across the page from right to left, but the tabs themselves remain light/dark grey. Since my links on this page (due to the dark backgrounds) are light in colour, I was hoping to make the tabs darker... but I just can't figure out what attribute to change.

in 4.7 i am trying to put some flash objects into the template but the flash will not render when I am on another page except the frontpage.