Theme development

hi all,

I would like to have my drupal 4.6 site's frontpage contain only login box and
info on what the site is about, like on yahoo mail's (http://mail.yahoo.com/)

How to do that using phptemplate theme?

Cheers,
Enky

Running RC2.

I'm building a theme to asynchronously fetch drupal content using XMLHttpRequest and friends. My theory is that by doing it at theme-level I can degrade gracefully. I have code that can filter a page by element and id to get the stuff i want to show. However, I have yet to find a way to have XMLHttpRequest.getResponseHeader() return anything other than text/html. I've tried things such as

- calling drupal_set_header on line 1 of my page template (drupal_set_header("Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8"); )

I am currently using the leaf theme and cannot get the scroll bar to display when I go over the aloted amount of lines given in the ADMIN AREA editing form. All the text is there when I copy and paste into the form but since I cannot scroll I cannot see below a certain number of lines.

I looked at the source CSS and the compiled page sent to the browser and I can't figure out what is wrong. What could Leaf have posiblay messed up so that the text area you add content to doesn't expand?!! After all, the CORE of Drupal RUNS THE ADMIN AREA!!!

I'm not really sure if this is the place to put this, but is there a Theme that has the fuctionality of Reflection but doesn't scale things down? Reflection seems to have a good effect on my site, but because it scales things down and makes it difficult to type, I've been having to switch to Connections, which also scales things down yet is pretty hard to work with. I have a banner on the front page of my site that doesn't look nearly as good scaled down like that. (You know GIFs.)

I am using php template in drupal 4.6.6

I want to display images from flexinodes in either the template or blocks.

How do I do this?

Yours,
Bill

I am developing a theme and want to have 3 columns on the front page and 2 on all other pages.

In CSS I have created a static width left sidebar, center content and right sidebar. I tried changing the center content to a percentage and making all of the blocks on the right side only appear on the front page but the CSS percentage change for the center content goes the full width of the page rather than filling up from the left sidebar to the right. (see CSS below)

I found a website that is doing exactly what I want so you can see it.
The front page is: http://american.idolblog.com/
Then when you click on the node it gets rid of the leftside bar completely and fills up that space: http://american.idolblog.com/american-idol-episode-27-top-9-elimination-...

Thanks in advance for your help and let me know if you need any more information.

Here is the CSS:
#leftsideback {
width: 190px;
padding: 5px;
background-image:url(images/leftsideback.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-color:#FFF;
vertical-align: top;
border-style:solid;
border-width: 1px;
float:left;
}
#contentsec{
margin: 0px auto;
padding: 10px;
width: 395px;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
border-color:#666666;
color:#000;
float:left;
}
#rightsideback {
width: 159px;
padding: 5px;
background-image:url(images/leftsideback.jpg);