Theme development

Hello.

I was looking at the Drupal themes on the various sites that exist for that purpose. I was looking for a theme that doesn't list the last 10 or so posts (stories, book entries, whatever), but sort of puts them together in an interesting manner. Simply put, I want the home page to be not a linear list of last 10 or 15 posts, but divided into specific areas where information of different kinds is categorised into its own groups. So all book pages come together in one part of the page, all blog entries are seen together in another part of the same page, and so on.

Hi, I'm creatin a new site using drupal: http://www.texturebazaar.org/
I'm using the theme Chameleon.

I want to remove the extra whitespace at the top and to the right of the sidebar.
I would also like to increase the size of the main section by 100 pixels.

http://yoursite.valentinepro.net/ thats my Drupal Site. I have gallery running in it fine. I want to take the Random Image

I was told this code would do it
GalleryEmbed::getImageBlock()

or this is from gallery itself

@readfile('http://yoursite.valentinepro.net/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=imageblock.External&g2_blocks=randomImage&g2_show=title');

ok in my theme i got a simple mysql query to get some data from another database.

it kick of this:
warning: mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /export/webadmin/apache2/htdocs/drupal-4.6.6/themes/PurpleRadio/page.tpl.php on line 6.

warning: mysql_fetch_row(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /export/webadmin/apache2/htdocs/drupal-4.6.6/themes/PurpleRadio/page.tpl.php on line 8.

How do I make it go away?

Is there anyway to check the placement of a block in block.tpl.php file?

For example:

I would like blocks in the right sidebar to print like this:

<?php print $block->content; ?>

but I would like blocks in the content section of my homepage to appear like this

<div>
<h3><?php print $block->subject; ?></h3>
<?php print $block->content; ?>
</div>

So, I figure it'd be like this:

I suck at designing but I haven't found a theme that matches what's in my head and the club can't afford to pay anyone, so I'm doing my best. But I can't get past this problem: