Theme development

Is there an easy way to add an image to show with each node type. I'd like to have an image that shows if the post is a blog, story, or event. Any help is greatly appreciatted.

Not sure if this is in the right place or not...

I'm going to start prototyping a site using drupal for my organization, and I admit I'm a little bit buffalo'd trying to figure out where to start with themes.

First, at least of the themes I've seen on the drupal site, none are quite what I want, so my assumption is that I need to take one of those themes and start modifying it to be more what I want. Is that a correct assumption?

How can I limit or expand the size of the comment Text box? (When you are commenting on a blog, etc.) I am using the xtmpl theme.

Thanks for any help,

- Robert

I'm using phptemplate to create a custom theme for my site. One of the things I wanted to do was to apply styling to the comment control elements (and at some point maybe also lay them out differently). Unfortunately the comment control elements don't have a unique class attibute to allow one to use CSS to style them.

To make it possible to style these elements, I wrapped them in a

How do I check for a node type (story, forum, page, etc) before it is displayed in phptemplate theming. I want to hide things like "tabs" on places like forums as on Drupal.org.

Thanks.

I recently changed all the colors to my theme. Everything is fine except my admin panel, I am unable to read the text. Could someone please help me and tell me where I go to change the colors for the admin section. Thanks.