Theme development

Just a quick question. I'm currently developing a three column css layout using phptemplate. I currently have no wish to theme individual blocks beyond whether it is a 'left' or 'right' block, and that is easy enough to do (I believe, I'm picking up php as I go along) with if's inserted in the block.tpl.php file.

Following in Chrisada's footsteps, I've got a theme to offer up and I'd take any suggestions you might have to improve it. I started with his fine port of the Persian theme and went from there.

Tweaks include:

i thought i saw a theme switcher module/block.... just one click to change theme. does it exist?

yaaay!! just what I always wanted.

Is it possible to set up the main content area so that I can have this?

STORY | STORY
STORY...........
STORY...........
STORY...........

I thought I should be able to do it with CSS etc. but the main area seems to be a single entity called $content - not sure what to do with it.

Any help will be appreciated.

Hi,

I've noticed that in Chameleon's forums the dark & light rows aren't working. Is this by design? I just get light rows, even though in the source code the class ids for the table rows alternate between 'dark' and 'light', which are defined in misc/drupal.css: