Theme development

Please Help me.

Banner or slide in theme marinelli not show in browser mozilla firefox but OK in Chrome and Opera.

Check :
http://marinelli.netsons.org/

Hi I am a newbie here and as I read the documentation. I just suddenly got a headache. I already heard CMS even before. But I am really confused when it comes to coding your site. See for example I design webpage ( duh!!not really a good one ) and here it is

http://www.flickr.com/photos/70667740@N00/8613199418/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70667740@N00/8613196530/in/photostream

I am not sure if this is the most elegant way to do this but it helped me do something that I could not find any other solution for. I was looking for a way to auto select the forum taxonomy on a new forum topic based on the taxonomy of the previous page or the forum to which the topic was supposed to belong to. I had a taxonomy id attached to the url of the add forum topic page. and I needed to use the Taxonomy id to influence the markup inside of the drop down field in the add form.

I copied theme_select into my template.php, changed it to
_select() and decided to rewrite the form_select_options() function which controls output of the select tags.
I changed the reference to form_select_options() to
_form_select_options()

above
_select. I pasted all the code for form_select_options() and changed the name to
_form_select_options()

inside of that I added code to pull the term id out of the url of the page:

$current_url = 'http://' .$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] .$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$curl2 = filter_var($current_url, FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT);

added an if statement to set "selected" to options that match the url string:

if ($value_valid && (!$value_is_array && (string) $element['#value'] === $key || ($value_is_array && in_array($key, $element['#value']))) || $key === ($curl2)) {

Hi all,

As the title suggests I am a newbie on Drupal so please don't be to hard on me ;-)
I am trying to make my first site in Drupal and did some tutorials.

Now I am looking for a Drupal theme which I want to use for my portfolio. I've looked on several sites for a matching theme but I couldn't find one. Maybe you can suggest me some (free or premium)

The theme must be;

I would like to create 4 sections in the Content area of my front page. Instead of creating Regions and then enabling each view block to display in the correct region, is there a way for me to use views, in order to achieve the grid like format? Each of the 4 sections is to have different content type/information etc. I am thinking this is not possible, but would love to hear from you as I am a drupal beginner.

I am using a Garland subtheme, which doesn't have any "column" regions.

For some reason, Chrome (latest version - 26) has decided to screw with my main menu bar. The last menu item - list item - is mis-aligned. See link to screen shot. A link to actual URL is below if anyone would like to take a look with browser dev tools. Any ideas as to what is going on - CSS conflict of some sort? Or perhaps a mistake in CSS that Chrome is not letting slip by?

Screenshot
link to site

Cheers!