Putting the ümlaud into Drüpal - a theme pimping walkthrough (rerun)

Putting the ümlaud into Drüpal - a theme pimping walkthrough
Overview
Drupal theming isnt that hard (at first) - but after the first sweet feeling of geek stardom, the truth comes sneaking, some elements of a theme can be kinda tricky to get right. This session will be concentrated on the art of theming that "basic elements" of your website, that can be a little tricky, unless you are willing to dig a bit deeper and get a little dirty.
so this one is all about pimping the crap outta your site ;)
Agenda
We start out with a sweet looking menu, set up the basic modifications in your theme (template overwrites, custon links, custom menues etc), then add some tricks with the power of css to the output of the links function, and voila youre king of the world ;)

• What should this menu actually do
  use the source luke! and lets get the html down first.
• Menus and the art of theme function overwriting
  setting up your theme to kick the S#!% outta the menu (with the blessing of the überkoders)
• css based menus (and the endless possibilities)
  when the basic setup is in order, and with a little knowledge of css layout techniques we are ready to rock
• breadcrumbs
  as I want em or that annoying designers made em, or the front end coder gave to me (hey i want it with 7 spams inside every elememt but no link at the last part etc)
• "$links"
  what to do with that list in the bottom of the node, and the power of css (the homework is done so lets spice it up)
• tabs
  all you admin are belong to us

Goals
To show some of the possibilities that are hiding just under the hood of drupal, and a couple of approaches to sex up your drupal life, and give the universal answer to the question that more than once have been shouted out:
"How the F!"#" do i get this menu to look like that the designer gave me - why cant we just use plain text menus and be done!"
and go from : "aaaargh I hate designer I hate drupal I aaaaaargh" to
"woohoo Drupal is the sweatest system in the world - wheres Dries I wanna kiss that guy, and by beers for all in the community"

Resources
basic css ,html, some php & very basic drupal theming knowledge, and not to offended by the words that start with F.... like fish

This is a rerun of the session i did at Szeged, but the sexy americans talked me into going for a rerun it ;)