I remember an interview with Jeff Robins and Ted Serbinski discussing issue's and challenges converting the concept theme of TWiT.tv to a Drupal theme. I can't find the original podcast on the Twit site now but it had some really good coverage of various issues one could run into.

When fully porting a theme, you really need to consider the site it will be used for, layout, content markup that is appropriate for your site.

Dark Ritual is a 3 column fixed width theme that uses floats. This will be a quick and dirty theme concept port, not a clean port of a theme to a fully functional version but should get you most of the way there.

Yahoo released their Yahoo! User Interface. One part of which is their webpage templates, the Grids CSS. To follow along you will need to download the YUI library, a working test Drupal install and a text editor of some sort.

Keep in mind I am not a php whiz so a lot of this will be copy and paste from one file to another so anyone should be able to do this.

Our goal will be the base framework for a two column template. You'll need to make it pretty yourself later. Read on for more...