[support] Basic help getting started

[Bruce Whealton]

Hi all,
       While I did get Drupal installed, I am having some startup problems with my first Drupal sites.  I have more than one, as it appears that Drupal is a web application that will be useful for a few different sites.
      One of the first issues deals with themes.  It seems that themes would be much easier to use and setup then things have been for me.  Unfortunately, the themes I check out at: http://drupal.org/project/themes/ when downloaded, do not have a readme or installation instructions file that will tell one what to do.
     Relatedly, the PHPTemplate theme tool said that all one does it upload the expanded zip (actually it was a tar/gz file) and upload it to the themes/engine folder.  Am I supposed to look for something after this is installed?  I had used Fantastico to install Drupal 4.6.4 but thought that PHPTemplate was installed;  I guess I was wrong.
     At the risk of sounding naive, what does one do to use PHPTemplate?  It said that only one file is needed in the particular theme folder such as theme/mytheme
  I'm missing something, as I'm still not seeing any additional themes from the default installation.
  So, to get started with Themes, and PHPTemplate, I will need to do what?  or start where?
   
  The second question deals with menus and Contact forms.  Suppose I want to add a menu item which will present a form for submitting content to two different email addresses.  I know that for a menu item, I first create the new menu and then add that menu as a block.  However, the path to a contact form to contact some default emails, like editors, is not presenting itself clearly for me.  I'm not finding it, can someone help, please,
  Thanks,
  Bruce


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