Theme development

I created a new theme and left the page.tpl.php blank. And when I am visiting the site, it is still showing the login form. I don't know where it is coming from and why. Please help me understand it.

I don't want to rant about how frustrating this whole installation and set was. Maybe I just missing something.

1. First, when I go to various sections all the pages seem to be distorded.
2. I look at video tutorials of drupal 7 and everybody seems to have a grey quick links bar right below the black strip main menu. Cant get that.
3. Can seem to make a simple page.
4. Username in the top right corner seems to alway have a red bubble around it.

I wish i can send a picture some body to see what i am seeing.

This is likely an unbelievably dumb question, but…I cannot figure out how/where to add jQuery plugin scripts to my Drupal 7 site (Zen sub theme). Specifically rotator plugins. I understand and can write both HTML and CSS, but not so much the php and javascript.

Problem 1—jQuery cycle

I set up a jCarousel rotator in Views without any problems and styled it in the css, but want to add something a little more interesting with transitions. So I tried the Slideshow option instead of jCarousel in Views. Under the Cycle options section of Slideshow, text in red states: "You need to install the jQuery cycle plugin. Create a directory in sites/all/libraries called jquery.cycle, and then copy jquery.cycle.all.min.js or jquery.cycle.all.js into it. You can find the plugin at http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle." So I did exactly as instructed and have a jquery.cycle folder containing the jquery.cycle.all.js file, which I put in Sites/all/libraries. Nothing shows up anywhere...not in the page head tag, nor in the slideshow settings pane. What have I missed?

Problem 2—Lambert Group's All in One Banner and Webtako's JQuery Rotator from Code Canyon

I'm trying replicate what Vice has on the top right hand corner where it displays the 'Top stories','Latest','Popular' Articles.

I'm kind of familiar with views, but this kind of thing seems beyond my knowledge. Anyone know how i would go about doing it?

Cheers

When I create a block using Views, the preview contains exactly what I want. Unfortunately, when I insert that view into a panel, it does not display. I have a pretty simple theme with mostly default Drupal settings. Any idea how I can troubleshoot this issue?

Hi there!

Not long ago I implemented several Slideshow views at www.e-corbetta.es. My question is, the three slideshows showing motorbikes, can I make them slide once after clicking a button that is next to it?

What I want is this:

When someone visits the webpage, and hovers the motorbike, a button appears so he can click it and change each image of motorbike.

Thanks for the replies!