Theme development

Hey All,

I am trying to move the sidebar from the right to the left of my page.

Link: http://www.justwindsports.com/index.php

As you can see the background is not moving along with it. I have gone through the CSS, and Template files. If anyone here can help me out a bit that would be most appreciated, all I need is some direction as to where the code is. I have looked and looked and perhaps its just me.

Regards,

.Joel

I've been thinking about the difference between say Wordpress themes and Drupal themes and the way they are spread. This isn't about which is better, easier, etc.

I've noticed that Wordpress themes are hosted all over the place, compared to Drupal, where most themes are centrally located. I think the major difference here is that Wordpress themes are often meant to be final products, where Drupal themes are actually more complicated. With Drupal you have Engine>>Theme>>Style; Most times a theme's style ends with the default style.css, but Theme engines allow someone to just add a folder with a style.css to a theme and voila! New design.

But these aren't themes per se.

I do a lot of this type of design. I create a base and I use it for many designs. For one thing it's a lot easier to maintain than a bunch of templates. For another it forces me to be very engaged in what is going on in the structural part of the theme. Any CSS Zen Garden fan will realize the re-usability of a good template.

So my questions are these:

1. What would be the best way to distribute these designs?
2. Where should these designs be located?
3. Is a decentralized approach better in this situation?
4. Will there be GPL issues? (hot button question to liven this up :P )

For example, wouldn't it be really confusing if there were themes, styles, and engines in the drupal download section? It's already frustrating to get questions about why ___xyz___ theme doesn't work (A: because phptemplate isn't installed) and adding another ingredient would be confusing. But is that better than including them with the Theme itself? Does that respect what is essentially a totally different design that someone could use?

What do you think?

I'm creating a custom theme and having great problems getting links to be active within node elements - they appear but are not selectable or clickable. This problem is NOT happening in IE, but is happening in Firefox and Netscape. I've tried adjusting positioning [relative, float] and layering [z-index] and have only been able to get links to work properly within blocks (by changing the z-index). Has anyone seen this issue? Any ideas would be much appreciated...

I have been pulling my hair out trying to get my front page to look like I want it to. I have tried the Front Page module and the Dashboard module without success. I am now looking at formatting the front page within the template directly instead of relying on third party modules. Is this a logical plan of attack?

I'd like to change "view, edit, track" on a userprofile if I could, which template file do I need to hook?

Thanks.

I would like to automatically focus in the username text input onload if an anonymous user visits www.example.com/user.

As I'm using Drupal 4.6/Phptemplate, I think that this would be most easily accomplished through some javascript trickery in the template.php file. If somebody could help get me started, I'll post the working code back into the theme snippets section of the handbook.

Thanks in advance,
Bjorn