Theme development

In the theme "adc" the blocks, both left and right load first and the contents then. This is very good if the article is very long, it renders beatifully.

In the excellent xtemplate theme the the contents loads after the left block whereafter the right block is loaded, doesn't look good if the node is long and the right block is missing for the time it takes for the page to load, them wham.

Could that be interesting?

see: http://www.faganfinder.com/me/

I guess this is the best forum for this post.

Is it possible the drupal.org style sheet could be updated so that in the blue title bar across the top, visited links are a different color?

As it stands now, for me visited links are 1 slightly darker shade of blue than the background.

Just pointing this out in case it hadn't come up.

(Having the links on the left is much nicer by the way)

I'd like to modify the way the story nodes display. Is this something I should do in the module creating an _page function, or can it be done in the theme?

For maintenance reasons, I think my preference would be to modify the theme. Here's what I'd like to do.

Currently, story.module displays the following:
   Node Title
   author : Submit Date
   body
   node links : node links : node links...

I'm trying to hack Xtemplate, and have some probs.
As I'm far from an expert in either CSS, HTML or PHP I have had a hard time figuring out how it works.
I'm trying to get a black 5px border around my content area and center it in the middle of the screen.

I have a strange problem; when I logged in as normal user change the theme to something else than the default this new theme is only used on the user acount page. Other pages still use the default theme. Any ideas to what could be the cause of this and how to remedy it?
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atte