Theme development

Hi, i want to be able to have rss articles displayed in a style like theregister. that is making them short and snappy blocks of 3 along and many down. how can i do it? i'll need to automatically summarise the length of the article, reformat it, and find a way of building a container for each article. but that should be okay once i've got a way of presenting the overall structure of the articles like theregister.

ideas on a postcard please...
thanks and regards
J.

I want to move the left column of a 3 column theme to the center and move the main content to the left. Would this be done in:

a) the theme's php only
b) the theme's css only
c) both
d) it depends on how it was coded

Thanks for helping a newbie.

Trip

Hi there,

I tried searching, but didn't find anything that covered this.

I created a theme for a client, and in the node.tpl that I created, I changed:
<?php print $submitted?>

To:
By: <?php print $name?> - <?php print $date?>

The overall result was as expected, and worked great.

The problem is when editting which node types display the post info, no matter what settings are changed, the info is always displayed.

I can't seem to locate or find how I can alter the XHTML of the taxonomy view. I have set up a URL alias for taxonomy/term/6. The page displayed has a page that is sticky at the top and then it lists the summaries of the story pages underneath. The page is themed using phpTemplate and node-page.tpl.php However when viewed using the taxonomy link, there is an added bit of xhtml at the bottom of the node-page.tpl.php code. containing:

I've tried to fiddle with one theme so far. But I'm trying to figure out how to do something with CSS and not having much experience with css beyong very basic things I don't know how to do this. How does one align an image center? Say a logo I create if I wanted it to be centered in the top blue bar of the gespaa theme? Also anyone know if there is a top style equivelant for linux? I find it helpful to have a visual while actually editing things to see how well the colours go together. One last question. If I use a less common font is there a way to use it in a theme?

Is anyone else having problems in durpal 4.6.1 with this theme? The imput boxes for uploading images go way over into side content. Sometimes text from the center overlaps the side. The settings page also has text imput boxes that go into the right side nav. I don't really have much experience at all with php or css so I'm unsure what exactly I need to tweak to stop it from making this visual mess.