Theme development

I want the user to select a background image for a theme, thus not using a style sheet. I want to user to choose a background when configuring the theme. But I haven't found a way to get extra settings on the theme settings page. So I decided to use the primary links for this (But if someone can tell me how to add extra settings on theme admin page, I'am using phptemplate engine, I will be very happy). But how can I access only the first primary link of the $primary_links variable in page.tpl.php. I tried $primary_links[0] but that didn't work.

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Have just started using Drupal using standard bluemarine as base template. Had the idea of a 2 col layout with main section and right-col with the variable display of a third col (left-col) between main content and right-col dependent on main content.

Moved code snippet for left-col, including begin/end tags, to a column 2 table position just before the right-col code.

Upon looking at the xtemplate.xtmpl files for a few XTemplate themes I have noticed that the following code is always used when placing the blocks.

<!-- BEGIN: blocks -->
<td id="sidebar-left">
{blocks}
</td>
<!-- END: blocks -->

I am trying to keep from using tables whenever possible and using CSS positioning instead. Is it required to place the blocks inside a table with an ID to differentiate between "sidebar-left" and "sidebar-right"?

Thanks!

Does anybody have any tips on what each Class, ID, and Tag does in the XTemplate CSS? I am looking to re-write the CSS file and not having to guess what each name means would help a lot.

Thanks!

I've got CS running OK but I can't for the life of me figure out how to confuigure the appearance - i.e. left sidebar, body, right sidebar. All I'm seeing is a tree view menu down the lefthand side? Also, I want a tabbed menu at the top - rather like this here - can't see a way to do it unless I'm being totally stupid - site is here: AccMan Pro