Theme development

I've used Friendselectric theme as a base for my design and I'm experiencing an issue with it.

If you look at the main page the right sidebar sometimes overlaps the main content in Windows IE. Can you help me figure out what could be the issue?

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Hello, I'm not quite sure I'm in the right forum, but I would like to have some PHP in my phptemplate page.tpl.php that knows when someone has just posted a new content (node) or just modified one existing node.

Do you know how I can do that ?

if (....) {

do things that will show in the page

}

Thank you, and please direct me to the right forum if you think I'm not in the right one, but I do not want to create a module.

Hey, Please any one let me know how can i fit the drupal application in my desgin.. Thanks.

I would like to know if some one can tell me if it is possible to create a fixed width theme that when there is no blocks then the page area stretches to the full width of the theme and when there is a block the left column appears and then the page width shrinks to the width of the theme less the width of the left column.

I cant seem to find a existing drupal theme that is already doing this. I would prefer to modify a existing theme for the sake of time saving.

I want to learn about phptemplate more. I'd like to understand how phptemplate builds the html file. How can I override the default settings. For example if I want to remove or add a certain element from a page.

I managed to edit existing themes by deleting stuff and managed to create separate themed pages for different node types, but I want to have a deeper understanding.

What shall I read? Or even better, is anybody available for a payed coaching over skype or email?

Thanks!

I've been using Drupal for years. I've got my newly-designed site up: DocForge. I like the colors but I'd like to bring it more life. Where can I find a simple set of free icons to represent things like polls, users, books, etc.? Eventually I'd like taxonomy images, but for now I'd settle for the basics. I just don't want to spend $100 for a set and I'm terrible at drawing them myself. Any ideas?

If there's nothing both good and free, any suggestions on a good source to buy them?