hi, how would i go about to make sure that all themes that i install supports templates, i have noticed that some themes im trying to run, cant handle templates. one example of such is the "dropshadow" theme that i really want to be able to run, altough it dosent seem to interp. the home directly the same ways as e.g Mu default theme.
any ideas?
Is it a really old theme?
I mean this in a nice way but you're going to have to learn about wordpress templates and learn how the template tags work. We can't tell you that you have to do one specific thing as there's lots going on. You're going to have to learn what the errors mean and what functions are being used.
A good place to start is here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags