[support] Understanding how a theme 'works'

[Christopher M. Jones]

Looks like a nice improvement. Sorry I was so negative in my previous 
reply. For the logo, you can do this, as well:

#eksymbol {
background:url("img/logo/eck_logo3.png") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
float:left;
height:110px;
margin-left:-110px;
margin-right:-110px;
width:110px;
}

The negative margin on a floated element is one of my personal favorite 
tricks. It's a nice way to avoid having to use absolute positioning.

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