Theme development

How are the theme elements (primary links, images, etc.) placed? How can I change the position of these (i.e. how do I get the primary links to be above my banner?) and what files do I need to edit? Any good resources?

(trying to tweak theme kubrick, uses PHP engine)

Hi, everyone, hope you will be willing to give a hand here.
I've just tried the nice_menus module which adds that drop down DHTML functionality
to a drupal powered site menu. For who hasn't tried the module it basically generates a
javascript drop-down style menu for the navigation.
I really need a menu that works like the ones I get from the nice_menus module but I
need it to be horizontal.
Would there be a way to bring the navigation menu just below the header of the page
and have it do be a drop down menu?

I'm trying to customize the menus in my PHP theme, however for some reason they always come with an extra DIV element wrapped around them:

<div class="menu">
...
</div>

Can anyone tell me what function is inserting that, and how ro remove it?

I'm having a very strange problem: I've got a theme that works fine in safari and firefox, and fairly well in IE (with some modifications for IE) but the right sidebar is giving me trouble. As the page load everything looks fine, until the last second, and then the right sidebar jumps over to the right (an amount equal to its width). But - if you resize the window or do various other things on the page, the right sidebar slides back into its proper place.

Any ideas on where to start for troubleshooting this problem?

I'm also using spreadfirefox at a site i'm develpoing with drupal:
http://adventistyouth.org.uk/beta/forum/1 . This is the beta site and
using drupal 4.7 rc1 .

However the same theme works ok on the production site:
http://adventistyouth.org.uk/forum/1 running on 4.7 beta4.
Any help at all will be greatly apreaciated. I've been at it a couple
of weeks. I still think it may be in the css.

Dan.

ARGHH! I have read the README.txt and have done what they suggested, but I still continue to get this humongous white space on the theme. The big problem is that users get the space when they carry out a search and fail to scroll to them bottom of the page to see their search result. and I dont blame them!

can anyone give me a tip or help me figure out how to remove the white space for this specific problem.
http://www.interpme.ca/drupal/?q=search/node/que