Theme development

Hi all,

I'm trying to create a theme in phptemplate (I thought that was the best way to go, preparing myself for drupal 4.7).
The handbook tells me that if I want to change a standard theme function, I just follow the next steps:
* create a template.php
* find the function to edit
* put it in template.php
* replace theme_ with phptemplate_
* edit the function

But it won't work. I want to edit the breadcrumb trail.

This:

does anyone know of a drupal theme that resembles the vbulletin corporate website ... I like their design and layout ??? Any Suggestion or can anyone create this look ... please contact me !

I am very beginner in Drupal, it realized many nice ideas but as usual there are some small technical problems. I'm going to have flash in the header of my future site, but it seems to be not so trivial. I didn't find any flash containing template. In Joomla they have at least one. My goal is to realize layout similar to this heavy metal site. I am wondering that there is no any tutorial for flash in Drupal. Is Drupal friendly to flash?
I will appreciate any suggestions!

v.bers

Hello,
I'm working hard to find how to modify ma front page to show nodes (TEASER only in fact) but in my SPECIFIC design.
I want show NEWEST node by different design like left of nodes (older).
Phylosophy is: First node (teaser only) show with bigger letters etc and older nodes (articles) in two columns with different design.

Means I need print node per node with full control (print title, print teaser, print footer (readed, add comment etc.)). Do you able help me? I realy worked hard and no luck.

Hi ... i really miss the maintenance option in Drupal 4.6.x version so I decided to make a little workaround. Maybe someone will find it usefull. It's only few lines of code.

If you are planning to make a fresh Drupal website and you don't want it to be open until it's ready for public you can use this theme.

What is it ?
It's a theme based on PHPTemplate engine so the users join your site and see the message that website is not opened yet, but Admin can login and work on the site.

I've been playing around with the themes on Drupal, and I'd like to try out some text effects that work on all links in the site... Durpal generates most of them though, is there any way without digging through every PHP file to add a new class to all the hyperlinks Drupal generates?