Theme development

Based on the bluemarine template for the PHP template engine and work by Nick (example menu), the following is a adaptation with working dynamic menu:

page.tpl.php

Ok, perhaps I'm wrong here, but I've been assuming that if a field is visible in the database, and in the admin layer that there must be some way to access it. From the categories admin:
Home » administer » categories

A "Description" textarea is clearly visible in the admin. The data's also nice visible in term_data. I even tried guess and adding in {description}.. But unfortunately this didn't work either...

I want to be able to add the description that has been entered into a category term into bluemarine/xtemplate.xtmpl

Right in here would be good:

Hi,

I am running my drupal 4.6.2 intall from a webhosting company called www.hostingplex.com they have a great package and good service for the most part. But they are using Drupal 4.6.2 on linux server with these server specs:

Hi, Im making a theme for my website: http://www.chips-n-bits.com using phptemplate.

Now this isn't directly related to it, but when i go to the page for "Submitting a Page" or "Submitting a Poll", the form elements go VERY wide, causing everything to their right to be shifted across to the right. They are in my opinion, overly large, with no need for it, and clearly leave no room for having a right sidebar as well as a left one, both at decent widths.

Hi all,

I am making my own theme with a merge between bluemarine and spredfirefox (learning).

You can look at my current progress (if you can call this progress) here http://www.salsamontreal.com/montrealsalsa

I can see two major problem for now...

Hello fellow Drupals!

Ok, let me be honest...I'm a Mamber...but I'm very interested in Drupal. I am already highly impressed by how simple and integrated Drupal is. What I would like to know is this:

Take a look at the site: http://www.wbgl.org
I am the new webadmin for this site...however it is, for the most part, static HTML galore...Yuck!

I am looking to convert this to a CMS. I have used Mambo in the past for other projects, however there is a very simple visual element to this site that I wish to capture. I found that in Mambo it was going to take a good chunk of source editing (as far as I have found) to accomplish.

Notice on the main page that all the images have a border around them. Also to the left of all the text entries there is a vertical black line that accompanies the lenght of the text. Collectively this is what I would like to accomplish for all entries on the main page. Very simple in HTML.

The problem with mambo is that the WYSIWYG editors had limited control over how your actual entries layed out as far as formatting is concerned. I know I could have stuck with making purely HTML entries in Mambo w/o using a WYSIWYG editor, however I'm looking to allow non-coders at this station to update parts of the site themselves.

This brings me to Drupal.

How extendable are Drupals themeing mechanisms? With Mambo I would have had to edit the way the data was stored in the SQL tables. While this is something I could have done, I wish to keep this conversion as time-efficient as possible.