OK, I understand how to make a theme and I've made one. There's no problem there, but the problem is with my method. My method is basically to look at the xhtml that's spit out by drupal either in a text editor or with Firebug and fix it up piece by piece. The results work, but they're messy. Is there some kind of a guide that would provide a sort of "checklist" of all of the different basic parts I need to theme?

EDIT: I mean that the checklist would include things like blocks, the main content area, standard forms, etc.

EDIT2: I also forgot to mention that I'm talking specifically about writing the CSS file(s).

Anyone know a module or other technique to allow users to save a draft of their writing?

How do I get DST working in Drupal?

People starting websites need to know about how the law affects them. I know it's not a really exciting subject, and I personally have a special hatred for extraneous laws (99.9999999% of them), but it's not a bad idea to consider it. Some things I think people need to know about are:

• The COPPA, or Children's Online Privacy Protection Act — This oppressive piece of legislation makes it so that children under 13 years old need to get their parent's permission in writing and sent to a webmaster in order for the child to submit information to a website. Since most sites cannot possibly afford to comply with this nutty thing, they simply do not allow users under 13.

  In Drupal, I've implemented this prevention using a slightly modified version of the Validateage module. My modifications:

  • Changed some of the text it prints which seems to be written with adult sites in mind.
  • Changed all instances of 18 to 13. (Why not?)

• Licenses — Do you want to copyright your website and reserve all rights? What about using a Creative Commons license? What about content added by users? Do you own it after they submit it or do they own it?
• Any other notable law-related issues you guys usually consider while building websites for people.

I want to subtract one MySQL database from another so that I can see the difference between the two. What's the easiest way to do this?