Theme development

I have just installed the voting module and set up the database and it doesn't seem to be working. If I check the settings of it I have it to display above the node, but when I go and view a node I do not see the voting system. Any ideas?

Thank you!

how do i setup the themes i download

I have been trying to change the fromnt design of this theme and i can not find where the logo is controlled

i searched all the files in chameleon folder and i didnt figure out how the logo is controlled
i have few questions

1. i see 3 css files - style.css, common.css and in folder marvin another style.css. Why are there 3 files and which one to change.

2. is it possible to change the picture type from png to jpeg, because jpeg needs much less kb for pictures
why is drupal using png files

Warning - I am sure this post is stupid but you Drupal guys seem nicer than most. So thanks ahead of time for your help.

I have googled and searched the forums to death, but unable to decide how best to approach this.

I currently have a site for my old high school chums back in Nebraska using Joomla. I started it as a joke and it has spread like cancer into a full fledged alumni community. I liked Joomla because I could have a "pretty" site in a few minutes. I just found a theme I liked and replaced the header.png image, and walla, my own site. (http://www.dailygeneva.com) Over time I found Joomla/Mambo restrictive, especially in the area of blogs.

I would like to switch the site over to Drupal because it rocks for what I want it for, but all the default themes.....excuse me... look uh, not so "pretty". I can hear my hillbilly friends now, "What did you do to your web site, it looks crappy?"

I am fairly comfortable with HTML/mysql/php but not so in CSS. I like the look of the spreadfirefox theme (curvy tabs), but am looking for something similar to what I already have http://www.dailygeneva.com, but the menu could be different.

Any advice/hints for me to customize my own theme to do what I want. It seems like everyone likes the phptemplate engine and starts with the boxgrey theme. What tutorials are best for a beginner? I am lazy, so I really don't want to hack together my own theme, but with Drupal it kinda looks like I have to, no?

I am developing a new PHPTemplate theme & it mostly works the way that I want, but it seems to be causing a strange problem when I try to log in or out. I am fairly sure it is related to the theme because the problem only happens when my new theme is used.

I am using clean URLs. The problem is exactly the same with IE and Firefox.

Using box_grey as the default theme, if I go to www.mysite.com/user I get a login screen. After entering a valid username and password, I end up on the www.mysite.com/user/2 page. If I click on a link to www.mysite.com/logout, I get logged out and end up back on the front page. Perfect.

However, with my custom theme as the default (and with *no* other changes), after entering the same username and password at www.mysite.com/user, I get stuck on a blank page with the address www.mysite.com/user/login?destination=user. If I then place the cursor at the end of the URL in the address box and press "return", I get redirected to the correct www.mysite.com/user/2 page. If I click on the www.mysite.com/logout link, I get stuck on a blank page again. If I then type www.mysite.com in the address bar, I can see that I have been logged out. There are no errors in the Drupal log.

So, it seems like *something* in my theme is causing page redirects to not work correctly. Any idea what it could be? I have no idea & the only thing that I can think of is to start with a totally clean template & paste in all the new code section by section, retesting every time. That could take days!

Please have a look at this page:

http://www.sphynxkatter.se

In IE the boxes overlap the header. But in Firefox everything looks fine.

This is the css file:

http://www.sphynxkatter.se/themes/box_grey/style.css

I've looked thru it, but I cannot find wat's wrong. Can you?