Theme development

This is a for a non-profit, personal pet project that comes out of my undergrad thesis. I contacted the one consultant who lists theme dev. in their page on drupal, and he's booked up for the month.

Specific Issue:
http://www.collegeequalityindex.org/?q=muohio

The taxonomy is all bunched up at the top and you can't tell which yes belongs to which question. As you can see it's a usability nightmare. Instead of saying:

I want to have a block that doesn't take up an entire column. For example in the forum, below the bottom of the block I would like posts to take up the full row width. Is there a way to do this?

Hello,

I create the different templates for flexinode type as a handbook :
- node-flexinode-1.tpl.php
- node-flexinode-2.tpl.php

wiith the differents fields

...

    <div class="title"><?php serialize $node->flexinode_7 ?></div>
    <div class="link"><?php serialize $node->flexinode_8 ?></div>
...

And this files are into my theme/gabarits.

I don't understand because the specifics pages ignore this templates.

Hi,
how do see if smarty was installed correctly? I did everything mentioned in the install-guide. But everytime I load a smarty-based theme, I just get a white page (no HTML-Output). I tried 2 different smarty-themes (4.7 versions). So I guess there is a problem with my smarty?

I'm lost on where and how $node->body and $node->teaser incoporate the formatting of lines & paragraphs. Somewhere in the last 24 hrs, my module has gone from normal line & paragraph formatting to absolutely none. All lines are merged into one block of text.
So far I can't figure it out where/how I've broken it, so if anyone has suggestions or pointers I'd be most grateful.

I'm using the Smarty Theme Engine, and I have this code to show the primary links:

{if count($primary_links)}
	<ul id="primary">
		{foreach from=$primary_links item=link}
			<li><span class="lw1"><span class="lw2">{$link}</span></span></li>
		{/foreach}
	</ul>
{/if}

I thought that it would print a list item and those spans for each link. However, the output is: