Theme development

I would like to create a content type which is just HTML

It is to show as promotional areas on certain pages per the theme specifications

I would like to avoid just HTML which is going to really just be banner text from existing as its own page

What is the best way to accomplish this when creating the content type?

moved to the appropriate forum

I don't have issues crearing stylesheets along side an html page that I am creating... I know what everthing is!

But I seem to get lost for what adds up to hours when trying to figure out thw CSS selectors for certain Drupal elements!

Any tips beside using firebug and live reload and just hacking away at it? Seems to be a faster, magical, easier way that ibam oblivious to.

Does an easy to read hierarchical descriptions exist or can be extracted somehow?

Hi Everyone, I'm new to Drupal and excited to start. I have a question from any experienced with all the themes.. I need a really creative artistic theme that will allow for a big home page graphic, and with unlimited color changing ability adding video's easily and a lot of cool features I also want to be able to run ads on the front page that can flash.
I would also like the ability to set up customer automatic e-mail response etc.

I want to give my footer a two-tone look.

Top 80% will be a light gray and the bottom 20% portion will be a darker gray.

Working with the page.tpl.php I am not able to get anything to show up on the bottom. Even when I move the class="clear" around.

Perhaps someone can lead me in the right direction.

I have to the footer section in page.tpl.php file the following code and css:

Hello,
I have a very simple question: can modules (e.g. for a specific block implementation) be defined within the folder of a theme? Or do I need to create and ship every module specifically for a single theme separately in the site's modules folder?

thanks.