Theme development

I' running Drupal 7 on a localhost (xampp).
In regard to version numbers, every thing I'm talking about was the latest production version available today (3/4/13).
I've added AdaptiveTheme to my Drupal installation and, per the instructions, created a subtheme for it (not their Footheme but just their generic subtheme like they describe in the installation notes).

Here's the problem:
1) I set the Adaptive subtheme as the default
2) Using the "home" button (in the administrative menu) I go to my site's front page.
3) Then, if you choose "appearance" from the administrative menu (to return to the themes page), the whole menu bar starts to flicker rendering it inoperable.

You can get it to stop flickering by closing out the window that that holds the admin task you are trying to do.
Once the above scenario has started, the flickering affects the menu bar when trying to accomplish any type of administrative task.

I get this same effect with Firefox (19.0) and Chrome (Version 25.0.1364.97 m), I don't seem to get it with IE.
This is all on a Windows 7 machine. I'm using Seven as the administrative theme. Setting AT Admin as the the administrative theme does not solve the problem.

Setting another theme, like Bartik or even Adaptive Core, as the default rectifies the problem. The problem returns when the Adaptive subtheme is returned to default.

Hope some one can point me in the rite direction. I am using a subtheme of Bartik to build a site for a friend. She wants to be able to display each page with a different back ground colour. I have figured out how to do this using the code per node module, but this means I need to code the css for each page on top of this the code per node module seems to be a bit flakey at the moment.

I specify I am not so prepared in php... I use views module in my website (built in drupal-7). I have a custom theme. I have set a views-view-fields--XX.tpl.php like follows

 /**`
 * Default simple view template to all the fields as a row.
 *
 * - $view: The view in use.
 * - $fields: an array of $field objects. Each one contains:
 *   - $field->content: The output of the field.
 *   - $field->raw: The raw data for the field, if it exists. This is NOT output safe.
 *   - $field->class: The safe class id to use.
 *   - $field->handler: The Views field handler object controlling this field. Do not use
 *     var_export to dump this object, as it can't handle the recursion.
 *   - $field->inline: Whether or not the field should be inline.
 *   - $field->inline_html: either div or span based on the above flag.
 *   - $field->wrapper_prefix: A complete wrapper containing the inline_html to use.
 *   - $field->wrapper_suffix: The closing tag for the wrapper.
 *   - $field->separator: an optional separator that may appear before a field.
 *   - $field->label: The wrap label text to use.
 *   - $field->label_html: The full HTML of the label to use including
 *     configured element type.
 * - $row: The raw result object from the query, with all data it fetched.
 *
 * @ingroup views_templates
 */

foreach ($fields as $id => $field):

Our website heading font and margin setup css is below:

h2.node-title {
float: right;
font-size: 20px;
margin-top: 2px;
margin-right:180px;
margin-bottom:4px;
margin-left:115px;
}

Drupal 7
Views
Bootstrap theme sub theme in use

I have a views-view-table.tpl.php file in my sub theme and I am trying to preprocess some of the variables sent to this tpl. I created a function bootstrap_preprocess_views_view(&$vars) in my template.php and it is not getting called when I visit one of my views pages. Why would this be? Other preprocess functions are getting called from the same template file. I have tried flushing the cache.

Hello everyone. I am new to Drupal, and the project that I am working on requires me to get a tube theme (somewhat like youtube) for my website. I have searched up and down for drupal tube theme (even minimized ones) but I can only find wordpress themes.

Does anyone have any recommendation as to where I can get a tube theme for a drupal website (free or paid)?

Or if there is no source, is it possible to convert a wordpress theme to a drupal theme (I am decent at CSS and HTML but my PHP knowledge is very weak)?

Thank You.