Theme development

I am toying with the idea of creating a 'hidden' Drupal site that is only viewable and accessible in full to a select group, but, and displays one specific public blog on an html page just like this:

http://i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=15906

Hey,

Using Drupal CVS (which has built in contact forms for the users). Is there any way of having a "contact this user" link in the post?
i.e. which will print the correct url as

<a href="/user/uid#/contact">contact this user</a>

what code could replace uid# with the uid for the user which posted the message?

Cheers,

Alex

I am starting a project , but i can't find really lot of drupal themes, i am familiar with templating systeme, from other cms, like autotheme (postnuke), joomla, mambo.. a lot of nice gpl templates from joomla and mambo, postnuke, i try to convert them to work with drupal

i begin with joomla template (not gpl) see at www.immobiliermaroc.org (french)

and also a theme based on PVII template see here

http://annonces.yo.ma/ french also

I'm using a modified version of the Lead template (which, I believe, uses PHPTemplate). My question is, where do I look to modify the space after a story (and before the next one)? I might, for instance, want to insert a dotted line after each story or reduce the blank space itself to make it smaller. Simiarly, would it be possible to alternate between two colours for each new post? (If the second question requires me to post a new thread then please ignore it)

Many thanks!

This only occurs when I'm replying to a forum original post, ie the first comment. If I reply to a comment I have no problem. After entering the reply and hitting "preview" I get the following error "Validation error, please try again. If this error persists, please contact the site administrator.".

I've created themes in wordpress, and I've read the handbook over and over but I'm having trouble understanding the concept in drupal.

What I'm doing is adapting the 'box_grey' template. I'm making changes to page.tpl.php, but then all my styling affects the site admin area as well and I certainly don't want that because the boxes/navigation should appear in admin, but not on domain.com.