Theme development

Hi all,

I'm new to Drupal and would like some help with a theme that I'm creating for my site.

So far I've managed to get things working quite well despite a complete lack of PHP, CSS, HTML experience. In the past I've depended on WYSIWYG editors to produce my site, but I was getting very frustrated with finding solutions to my requirements. I stumbled across Drupal when reviewing several CMS's and so far it's the one that has allowed me to make the most progress (as a complete novice). I've spent the last week emersed in CSS and have a reasonable grasp of what I can do now, which leads me to my question/problem.

I want to put the main navigation menu (home | archives | blogs ... etc ) into a vertical list rather than the current horizontal form. If you take a look at my site so far - http://groundfloor.mine.nu/hundred21/ you can see that the nav menu is on the right above the other 'blocks'. I know I can customise the nav menu names, and I can see the code in the .theme file that produces the nav menu, but I can't seem to make it vertical. I have tried a list style in the CSS, but that didn't do anything. The site is tableless and styled purely with CSS except the picture gallery, and best viewed in a modernish browser (IE 5.5, Mozilla, Safari ...)

Any help and suggestions for the theme are welcome. I hope to release the theme with variations once it's completed.

I'd like to create a theme around XTemplate_tableless. Initially I just want to change add/or add colours to the theme, which I guess I do by modifiying the .css page. But eventually when I figure things out a bit more I might want to make more substantial changes

My question is, is there away that I can "inherit" the XTemplate_tableless theme to create my theme rather than hacking the stuff in the XTemplate_tableless directory?

I have the tables for privatemsg installed ok. Almost
have it working.
But.....
Just can't get it up in the theme xtemplate.
Anybody got this working? Share your code please.

thanks for your time.

joe

Greetings.

It seams that themes do not work anymore on my site. You can see it by yourself at:

http://site.deragon.biz/drupal

It worked initially, then I installed the polder theme which had some problems. I removed it and still the Marvin theme (which my site is set at) does not show up properly. Anybody got a clue?

Sincerely,
Hans Deragon

Hi everyone, I have a BG Image on my site and I would like to be able to see it through the tables...ie have the tables basically be clear or colorless I am using the polder theme and have tried serval different ways to of doing it but no luck as of yet if I try and blank it it keeps getting set back to the "default"...If anyone knows how to do this I would appreciate any help...basically I just want to keep the placement of my blocks and such and have it look like the words are just over the image...sticking with the polder theme isn't a must but any way of doing this would be awesome...Th

I am almost there. I want to customize how blocks are displayed, but i can nopt find where they are layed out. Does any one know? Where is that function for how a block is displayed?