Theme development

I am creating a simple website for a non-profit. Here is their old site: http://www.baldingfordollars.com

I'm going to use drupal to create a new site for them. I was planning on making a Drupal template using a simple 3-column (perhaps fixed column like this andreas01 (http://andreasviklund.com/templates)). They are also paying a graphic designer (since I don't have very good graphic design skillz). Anyways, I would like to start with a Drupal template and modify it from there OR start with some nice HTML and CSS mock-ups and translate those into Drupal (I think I could manage to do that) sort of like what is described here: http://support.bryght.com/articles/converting-css-html-design-phptemplat...

The graphic designer (not chosen by me) lists on their resume:
Adobe InDesign CS
Adobe Photshop
Adobe Illustrator
Microsoft Word
Dreamweaver
Quark Express
Flash

I don't know what InDesign or Illustrator are supposed to do, but can Dreamweaver create simple HTML/CSS?

Hello,
I was wondering how to theme/customize the taxonomy browse view (www.site.com/taxonomy/term/1). Is there a tpl.php file that I could create that would allow me to do this?

Hello,
I have created a custom flexinode and themed it by making a node-flexinode-x.ptl.php file. I am wondering what the code would be to link the teaser view to the full view by clicking on the header H2 tag?

here's my code as I have it now:

Drupal Theme Generator version 3.2
©2005-2006 by Sam Raheb
January 30, 2006
Designed for use with Drupal versions 4.6.1 or greater
Supports both PHPtemplate and Xtemplate Themes
Includes Source Code

Version 3.2 Revisions Changes:
Added the following code to the style.css file that fixes an Internet Explorer (IE) bug to do with floating tags (Peekaboo bug) ref: http://drupal.org/node/30366.

I am very new to Drupal (meaning I'm still learning the teminology and have almost no knowledge of editing themes), and I want to use a drupal theme with a Javascript menu. The code I want to use is very similar to this: http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/switchmenu.htm

Hello,

I'm new to Drupal, but it looks promising as it is very small and effecient.

My current project before switching to Drupal as my primary CMS is to figure out several things. The first is:
How do I modify a theme for a module?

Example: Instead of the navigation bar for the book module belonging to the bottom of a page, I want to have it at the top of the page. How do I modify the layout to reflect this change?

Or for a forum I'd like to include the information output of a custom SQL statement to show the current number of posted articles, etc.