Theme development

My site is using Drupal 4.6, with the theme called Interlaced. Interlaced is just a CSS theme, not using the PHP Theme Engine. I am about to begin my first attemp at styling my own Theme for my Drupal site. I hope to not use Tables, but DIV’s with the CSS.

What elements, classes and IDs in CSS control positioning and width of the left-, center- and right column?

I'm building a basic theme with a page.tpl.php and a style.css that has these lines:

.leftcolumn {
position: absolute;
left: 3%;
width: 10%;
}

.centercolumn {
position: absolute;
left: 15%;
max-width : 30%;
}

.rightcolumn {
position: absolute;
right: 10%;
}

Both in Firefox and IE I don't get the webpage title on top of the browser.

I have a page.tpl.php with this line:

<title><?php print $title ?></title>

It doesn't seem to do anything. Is this line of code correct? What else could I try?

I generally look for cool sites to create mine.

For static html I use winHTTP and for flash I may use flash grabber to take a closer look at files before I replicate a part I might like.

I'm not trying to violate copywrite but if I see a cool template design I'd like to be able to look at it and see how they did it in the code.

Does anybody know of a way to do this?

Using 4.6 and phptemplate...

blix, gespaa, greenmarinee and manji are examples of centred themes, where all content appears within a tight, central block of usually two columns. I have tried tjhem all and none are able to show large images without disturbing the layout. When a user places an image that takes up the whole width of the content column, it forces the side column down the page. I tried to avoid this by placing an image as a backbround to a table, but with the same ill-effect.

HI All

Drupal newbie here, previously with Mambo/Joomla. I have a couple of questions on developing my new template for my Drupal site based off a Joomla template.

http://ksl.com.au/template_thumbnail.png shows the template I would like to reproduce. Knowing very little about Drupal, can someone tell me how I would get the blue centre box to display. I would like to use the blue box for a featured story, once I figure out how to get that to work. Actually that will be a question for another forum.