Theme development

Hi there,

I am following the code from the handbook:

front page layout switcher for your page.tpl.php file

that should let me build a seperate home page look (I want to use icons only on the front page, as it is a site for school children - so iconf for forum, icon for news etc).

The code:

I've searched the site and found a fair bit of interest in an XSLT based theme engine.

Just want to know if anyone has accomplished it, because I'd love to have the engine, but I'm not able to put in the time to make one.

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?