Theme development

I think it might be very cool to create a "Google theme".

Link

The primary/secondary links could replace the links above the search bar there. Instead of the ads on the right side, you could have the links and blocks, and the search results could be replaced with the news items/nodes.

This would be great for news sites, imo.

I can start on this, but I'm wondering what theme would be the best starting point?

Thanks :)

Hello to all.

I´m having a strange problem with the greenmarinee theme. Currently my front page looks fine in mozilla, but in IE it moves the articles down in position below the right sidebar. I´ve looked to the source code, and I view that there are some div tags not closed. Is a problem with the theme?

This is my front page: http://poquer-red.com

Ty in advance to all!

Any one image gallery, when selected, shows one row of thumbnails, and then more pages by number underneath. This leaves a largely empty page. What I want to do is to have those thumbnail spread in rows down the page, so I have about ten rows. How would I go about that?

It doesn't matter what template I try, but I get :

Fatal error: phptemplate_init(): Failed opening required '' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in ./themes/engines/phptemplate/phptemplate.engine on line 55

with all installations of 4.6 on my local test computer. I do not have this problem with 4.6 before on my published site.

Whilst all works ook on my remote server, I've just returned to a fresh test installation of 4.6. and phptemplate, and I get this error with most themes, inc. my own custom, blix, freinds electric, blumarine, but not adc:
[code]Fatal error: phptemplate_init(): Failed opening required '' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in ./themes/engines/phptemplate/phptemplate.engine on line 55[/code]

i've heard about the extra white space in php code, but this is happening with 'vanilla' downloads.
Cant understand it.

I found the search function doesn't work in non-standard themes like Blix and
Manji, but does in standard themes like bluemarine and friendselectric.

How can continue to work with on the non-standard theme I started on , but incorporate a working search function?

I checked page.tpl.php in Blix and in Manji, and they seem to have similar but not identical search function code as in the standard themes. I can see this is not a phptemplate/xtemplate issue.

I can't show the code here as posting won't allow it.