Theme development

Hei.

I'm fairly new to drupal, but have setup a couple of sites now. I really like it, but I miss something very important (in my customers eyes): A more "sexy" administrator interface with a custom look and feel. I have tried the control panel module, but this is really just a simple table with some images that link to the different administrator tasks. It's a start, but I need to:

- Customize the appearance of the "add content" forms. Changing style on the form elements etc, kan be done with CSS, but what if I want to change the order of the elements or simply create a totally different layout on the entire page containing the form? I cannot see how I can do this with themes and my current knowledge of drupal :)

- Maybe even display the entire administrator interface in a completely separate layout, making sure I can use the entire window width for editing etc. without worrying about users using a "small-width" theme which makes the FCK-editor narrow, making adding articles and other content cumbersome...

My experience with drupal so far is that once you get the hang of it, it's fast, scalable and easy to use, but every time I show it off to people I get the same response: "What's up with that evil text-based administrator menu? It looks like something made by computer engineers made for computer engineers! I want it to be more sexy to be able to enjoy using it in my day to day work!". I guess it's quite true. Remember that people are used to administrator interfaces like the ones found in mambo and seagull.

Hi,

I am tying to use the links and everytime i get this error. It is happened on any selected themes which have these links. I don't know how to use them. I would appreciate if someone can help me on this and it would be helpful to have code samples if i need to any theme files.

Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /var/apache2/www/modules/system.module on line 649

Thanks

HI

Ive have used mambo, and then i could open the php templates in dreamweaver, but now with dupral i have no ide how to change the theme. Is there no program that can read the theme files?

Hey folks. The site in question is here: http://unfilterednewsnetwork.com

As you can see, if there is an image in a node that is promoted to the front page, it messes up any nodes promoted below it. I have been wracking my brain trying to fix this and am no longer able to look at code to try and figure it out because my eyes just glaze over at this point.

So tell me, oh wise ones, what is it I need to change to make sure that nodes clear enough to not overlap the node below?

Can someone direct me to where it might be? And what to change exactly?

I need my adminship back ;)

God Bless

I'm curious if anyone who has done theme developement would know if I would be able to make a theme that looks similar to the way apple.com works. Main adverts on the front, then with content on the backend.

Any help would be great, thanks.