Theme development

Hi.... My name is Rich. I am brand new to Drupal so please excuse my lack of basic knowledge, but here goes:

Drupal seems like a great way to consolidate our library's information gather needs into one spot. I am just now setting up our installation and getting it running... Very interesting indeed.

Before the installation is complete I was hoping I might as the community members if they have seen or could possibly recommended a theme that could be used as a foundation for the first page our library needs to post.

We need to post an information request form which will be used by our University's faculty to send Research Information requests the research librarians here at the library.

Each faculty member will fill in their Name, Department, contact information, Data Needed by ( with Calendar widget...), Type of research ( New Program Needs Analysis, Literature search, etc. ) What type of format they want, articles, e-books, Websites or documents, and also the number of years back that need to be searched retrospectively.

They will be given an area on the form to describe their project in as much depth as possible as well as a field in which to describe and research what resources they have already searched.

I was hoping that someone in the Drupal community might have seen an existing template I could use as a basis for our form?

I have an override for my theme called:

corporate_form_element()

The base hook was copied and tweaked. Multiple forms have to be modified and in some cases some individual elements did too. I typically get around this by checking conditionally whether markup is needed.

For instance I check for checkboxes and theme accordingly:

I am not quite sure if my question has been answered before... If it has, pls someone nice :) should provide me with the link to see the thread...

Ok so I am theming for D6 (also looking to make the D7 version), and have a front page (page-front.tpl.php) and the other pages (defined by page.tpl.php). I have some links: On the front page they appear in a section different from the other pages, because the background colors are different (for the sections on the front page and other pages) I cannot use the same colors for the links. I have actually come up with a color scheme but I am having some trouble getting it to really work (on Drupal).. I have built several complete websites (where I have applied this color scheme) using DW and it works fine.

For example (the concept of what I am trying to achieve)
On the front page (page-front.tpl.php)
The link states are link (for normal links), link hover(when a mouse hovers over a link), visited(for a link that has been visited), visited hover (when a mouse hovers over a visited link). The links appear over a certain background color. (pls note this is not the actually code but just the concept/idea of what I am trying to achieve)

On the other pages (page-front.tpl.php)
The link states are same as the front page only that they appear on a different background color

I want to display the search result page containing any content type fields like title field , image field etc.

I made a custom page and I enabled it in order to be my website's front page.
But, when i go to the homepage, it don't appears the panel, but the "page-front.tpl.php" that I had made before.
Do I have to delete this tpl.php file in order the panel works? If not, what do i have to do?

Hi,

I'm trying to find a way to print the summary of an article in the node full view, but this seems to be a very hard thing to do. Normally the summary is only displayed at the frontpage with the articles list, then in the full view it is not. It's only the content. I want the summary to be printed in the full view also.