Theme development

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...

I am setting up a site, and am modifying box_cleanslate (a phptemplate theme) to my own purposes in Drupal 4.6.3.

However, I'd like to put gutters (is that the right term?), i.e., columns on either side of the page so that the body of the page doesn't start or finish right at the edge of the browser window; I've seen some Drupal sites set up like this, but don't know enough about the structure to figure out where this would be done, and haven't managed to figure it out by trial and error.