Theme development

I'm trying to make my community profile page look like this:

http://connect.goodstorm.com/profile

or

http://www.ironweedfilms.com/profile

Currently, my community profile page just looks like a standard page:

www.ithou.org/profile

Does anyone know how to make the community profile page ordered into columns with user pictures?

Kind of at a loss here.

Quick question - I love the Pushbutton theme that comes with Drupal, but I would prefer the body text of each page to be a bit smaller (like it is with most of the other themes). How do I do that?

I have looked in the admin area within Drupal but can't see any easy way to alter the (default) font size of body text in each page. I presume I have to alter a config file somewhere?

I know my way around FTP and editing config files etc, but I haven't got any experience with PHP etc. specifically, so layman's terms would be appreciated!

Many thanks in advance...

Hi,

How would I go about incorporating the same drop-down function (the little triangle that is used in 'admin -> settings' and 'advanced search'), to have my posts only showing the title?

It should be simple enough I imagine editing the .tpl.php file for the node type, but I don't know how to recall that function and apply it to a specific div...

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Alex

my new theme (beta testing - but live) works fine until you view one of the nodes...

The background colour disappears and the css for the title and by line changes (padding?) somehow. I have used the firefox developer bar, but can't see why - nor can i in the code???

i have no idea why!

any thoughts?

thanks!

c.

I am beta testing a new (personal) theme and in working though the issues i have come across one i cannot see a fix for...

I want to either remove the 'Use this form to send us feedback' (preferably) from the feedback page or change the style of the block header from h2 [i tried hacking the module to remove this line - no luck)

There is also the same issue with this style on a number of pages.

A big issue is on the input formats (admin/filters) page

The permissions and settings selectors is too wide - i can't remember where i change the value...

I've made two new Drupal themes available: Sands and Sands_CSS.

Sands had been available for a while but I never really announced it; I've made a lot of changes to it since then, and split into two versions. My motivations for creating this theme I've voiced in another thread: Creating a new Bluemarine-like generic theme.

The “normal” version (“Sands”) uses tables for layout, similar to Bluemarine, Fancy, etc. It works great in 4.6 and 4.6 across many browsers.

The CSS version (“Sands_CSS”) uses a fairly advanced “holy grail” 3 column CSS layout, with all the nice tidbits: it's fluid/elastic (scales with font size changes), has source-ordered columns (main column appears first in the HTML) for better SEO. It works well in Firefox, KHTML (Konqueror and Safari), but unfortunately not too well in Internet Explorer, especially in 4.6, because of weird CSS problems triggered by the use of <base href=”...”>

They both use Mark James' Silk CMS icons to emphasize certain links, like the author, node date/time, read more, add comment, etc links. This is common in Wordpress themes but hasn't been popular with Drupal themes.

One of my major goals with this theme was to make it easily modifiable: I'd want to use this theme to develop other, more-custom themes. CSS rules are well-laid out and separated, for example colors.css solely styles colors and is meant to be modified. Layout.css contains things such as paddings and margins, which most people do not need to modify. The column layout code (in case you want to use your own) is also segregated, which makes the difference between Sands and Sands_CSS only two files. Removal of icons.css removes the use of the Silk icons in case you did not like them. So on and so forth.