Theme development

I'm making a site with no users except admin, how do I make a page that only the admin can log into? Like in joomla you have www.site.com/administrator so no need for a log-in field in the public site. Thanks!

I would like to replace many text-links such as "read-more", "post-comments", "reply" .... with some buttons.
Can this be done in the theme? Where would I start?

Andre

How would I go about subdiving the "Mainpage" in horizontally (both on the left and right) using css in so the text wraps instead of using tables for the same fuctionality?

Here is an example of the page I have:

              SIDEBAR| MAINPAGE
-Links                    |
                             |
                             |
                             |
                             |
                             |
                             |
                             |
                             |
                             |
                             |
                             |

Instead I want something like: (the arrows represent the size of where the text can now go)


SIDEBAR| MAINPAGE
-Links |-------> <-------
|-------> <-------
|-------> <-------
|-------> <-------
|-------> <-------
|-------> <-------
|-------> <-------
|-------> <-------

Hi there,

I have set up a redirect so that the front page has its own layout.

However, the css is not working for background images...

I have imported the frontpage css as instructed using the handbook:

<style type="text/css" media="all">@import "<?php print base_path(). $directory; ?>/frontpage.css";</style>

The styles are working so the css is being imported correctly, however the images are not.

The images are stored in an images folder.

An example of an image used as a background:

Hi !
I'd like to know how to customise the menus, others than the primary links in Drupal 4.7 ?
I'd like to add a vertical delimiter like this one |

Thanks for your help ;)
Matt

Just starting a thread here to take a discussion out of the Hanbook.

Dub