Theme development

I am new to Drupal and have setup a site with a custom theme based on Zen. I am using Garland theme for admin pages and I would like to use the Garland theme for the user pages (/user/...) but currently it's using the custom Zen theme. How can I change it?

-tk

I'd like to avoid breaking my theme paths eg. ( /sites/all/themes/currenttheme ) by using a php variable like $directory/currenttheme to get the path for the current theme running. I know I saw this somewhere as recommended practice but I can't seem to figure out the proper syntax to do it.

Can anyone point me to the right page or tell me the syntax for it?

The problem is when I moved my theme from a local test site to remote multiinstallation of drupal, all the theme paths to my image directory broke

Thanks!

My first theme study, and I'm two days into investigating what seems like such a simple task. I'm simply trying to make a table to display the menu in, so I can zebra-strip the rows. The default behavior is an ordered list assigned to the $sidebar_first variable. But it has been impossible for me to find this elusive variable definition. I see many of the vars in page.tpl.php are defined in "includes/theme.inc" by the template_preprocess_page function. But there's no sign of $sidebar_first.

Hello everyone,

Im developing my first drupal site, and im still learning a lot everyday.

My goal is to have a page/node(lets call it mypage) where i can have this:
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link node1
link node2
link node3

display content node1
display content node2
display content node3
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so far i have done the following,

I just bought the book css for dummies but I was hoping that someone in this community could tell me how to change the colour of the suckerfish menu in the zeropoint theme. Do I do this in style.css or in suckerfish.css? I have taken a look at the code but I am having difficulty locating the code that I need to change. I will also add nicemenu but I think if I change something in style.css it should affect all menu's?

Hey all,

i (Newbie in his 2nd try to set up a drupal website) have a zen subtheme running (Drupal 6.14) with a left and right sidebar and a content region in the middle - normal stuff.

Now i would like to order the teasers on the frontpage.
1 teaser 100% width, then 2 below with 50% width each - next to another, then again 1 teaser with 100 % width - something like that.