Theme development

Hi!

I'm trying to customize my header to have following stuff there: Logo, Slogan under the logo, 3 small icons for social media, login bar and custom menu.

Tried to make 4 different zones to my header: Zone1 = Logo and slogan, Zone 2 = icons, Zone 3 = free space and Zone 4 for login bar and custom menu. Is there easier way than to divide these into 4 zones? I tried it with 1 zone but I had a lot of trouble with positioning and everything got so messed up so I tried to divide it into 4 zones.

I've made a few sites but used contrib themes on them and made changes to these themes, however what is the best way to create a theme for a client that has a specific design in mind? I was just wondering what ways other developers go about this? Do you create a new theme from scratch, sub theme a contrib theme or what?

Hey guys,

I'm attempting to add placeholders to the few forms that I'm using on my drupal site. I have the log in, register and basic contact page. I have placed the code below into the template.php, but only certain placeholders are populating. I'm new to php, so I'm sure I'm probably doing something obviously wrong.

Hey Guys,
Hoping all is well.
I have a bit of a problem with rendering HTML in my nodes and blocks. When ever i select 'Full Html' and add valid html code to a block or page and save e.g.

Let me start off by saying I am VERY new to Drupal and I'm a moderate HTML/CSS coder so PHP is a new language for me. The problem I am experiencing is when customizing the Zen theme I discovered that the nav and sidebars go underneath the body for some reason. I can understand re-positioning them for compatibility but wouldn't everyone want at least the navigation on top? I got around it by moving the nav bar to the header and changing up the CSS but I NEED first nav to be on the side in every browser. Any ideas? I really don't want to change themes at this point.

hello, can somebody tell me how do i change a specific block`s background-color without affecting all the ohter blocks?
Thank you