Theme development

Hello everyone,

I am a drupal, php, newbie working in a summer internship and my boss is having me make some changes to our site.

I am trying to get an internal company website to display a users real name instead of the username. Essentially my boss wants it to always say "Welcome! first_name last_name" at the top of the page.

So far I've edited the page.tpl.php file to look like this.

print $site_html . '' . ' Welcome! ' . $user->name . '

' ;

that puts a "Welcome! user_name" right where I want it.

Hi,
I am new to drupal and I would like to have a drop lists menu on my drupal site. Something like Stu Nichols' drop lists menu here http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/drop_lists.html, only I have managed to make two levels to it (I already have written xhtml and css files and the thing works). What is the easiest way to implement it for a drupal theme?

Hi

I want to know the list of drupal version. Because i have to upgrade my drupal version. Now my version is 6.2. Which version is feasible for me to upgrade now?

Thanks in advance,
Revathy.

Hi,

so far my nodes display the dates they were first published. Since my site has a more static character were nodes are edited frequently, it makes more sense to display the date a node was last edited. I don't seen a variable that suggests it carries that content or am I overlooking something?

i had set for my primary to be the source of my secondary links. but i couldn't get the children to be displayed/printed out on my site.

i'd tried and switched to the acquia marina theme, and it works. i'd tried looking anyway at all of their theme files but i just couldn't get how it does that.

anyone here willing to point this to me? really appreciate any help. thanks.

I have followed all the steps on how to install a theme. But for some reason every time I try to switch my theme it doesn't work. Did I not make a file or folder writable or something??