[support] Understanding how a theme 'works'

[Christopher M. Jones]

It's not so much Drupal theming you need help with. You've got CSS 
issues. I looked at your site in firebug and made a few changes that 
fixed several problems, but not all of them. The further I got through 
your css the more issues I found-- more than a post on this list can 
really address, and probably enough to warrant the exchange of cash ;-)

I don't know the history of this template: who built what parts of it, 
etc. But it seems to me you need to hire a themer. Or you might do well 
to start your theme fresh using one of the starter kit / bare bones 
themes, like Zen (my personal favorite).

I'm not saying this template couldn't be debugged. But there's so much 
wrong that it would take about as long to fix it all as it would to 
start from scratch. And given the fact that you are posting to this 
list, it sounds like you are not up to the task of fixing it.

Sorry my own response couldn't be more helpful. Maybe someone else has a 
different take.

On 11/23/2010 10:28 PM, Roger wrote:
> I don't know if anyone can help me but I am in a big problem
> understanding how a theme works in Drupal6.19
>
> I'm using Marinelli - Giordani to create a site www.drupal.eckankar.org.au.
>
> It's roughly ok but has problems I do not understand.
>
> The member's login is way off the bottom of the content wrapper.
> I found the<div class that handles it but cannot successfully
> reposition the components.
>
> I need the quote slide show to appear top right corner of the page, nit
> in the content, but if I use the blocks to relocate it it disappears.
>
> Also the designers have put a wide variety of .contentblocks to be all
> things to all people however it prohibits me from relocating some of the
> menu components which are in the .rsidebar and .lsidebar
>
> Basically I need all the output to appear in the .wrapper. if you go to
> the site and click on an underlined date in the calendar you can see
> what I mean.
>
> Another nagging issue is that in on Apple Mac the whole page is wrecked,
> it does not zoom. The logo goes up and  left.
> It is position:relative to #page which does not alter in position or
> dimension.
>
>
> I do not know if I'm even explaining the problem right, it's very
> confusing as there seems to be overrides from the system and the
> Marinelli theme systems that I cannot find using Firebug.
>
> thanks in advance
> Roger