Theme development

I'd like to set up a tableless phptemplate theme with flexiblock. I noticed a couple tableless themes in the download hopper here on Drupal.org, but I'm not sure which one is better to use as a plain-vanilla template that I can build from. Any recommendations?

--|PW|--

Hi,

Using PHPTemplate with Drupal 4.6.3 how do I edit the Forum skin like:
http://localhost/drupal/?q=forum

node.tpl.php does not seem to help?

Cheers,
Alex.

Hi,

I'm interested to have a Drupal theme and i would like to have it changed little bit to meet my site requirements. Is there anyone we can help me on this. Please let me know.

Thanks

I played around recently and learned how to write a .theme which is pure CSS, no tables.

It's installed here: http://healership.com/

The salient features as I see them are:

Do either of these Smarty-based theme engine work properly for Drupal currently?

Smarty Theme Engine:
http://drupal.org/project/smarty

wgSmarty:
http://drupal.org/node/26897

The Smarty Theme Engine page says it's "recently updated" but the page itself hasn't been updated since December 2, 2004 ...

How can I cut that obnoxious watchdog table in the administration section down to size?

There are more tables and forms with unnecessarily wide cells that don't scale...