Are there ani guides for making a theme here?

[Nieth]

To clean up the theme you're going to have to use a combination of HTML and CSS, alternating back and forth. The sidebar menu is extremely difficult to edit since most of the parameters are defined in the .php files, so I tossed all of those out and started from scratch, designing my own Nav bar with custom URLs. I've found this to be much more effective and customizable. Then, I placed the sidebar somewhere on the side where members can use some 'quick links' rather than it being the main form of navigation, and I edited the links available from my database.