Mike,
Welcome to Drupal! ;). Good questions all. I highly recommend that you take some time to work with Drupal. It takes a little while to figure out not only what is there, but also the "Drupal Way". In short, there is a fairly steep (but relatively short), learning curve. After which you will really enjoy the views. The nice thing about investing time in Drupal is that the investment pays off.
Dan
Hi, I want to use a CMS for a new project I am working on (tired of managing all HTML by hand). Drupal is one of the Fantastico-equipped scripts that my ISP offers. I see other sites doing neat things with Drupal but I have no idea how to make it do these things.
The first thing that bothered me was that every bit of content wasvery blog-like (displaying user and time posted). This site is going to have static pages that do not necessarily need such information. I figured out how to turn off that header via the theme configuration. Out of story and article, what do I want to use for static content (e.g., an "About" page)?
I noticed that the book module has an option to display aprinter-friendly display option. How come this is not the case on other types of content?
I need to make a navigation menu block. I notice that the"Navigation" module is enabled by default. But I do not see how to do anything with that block. I can make another block for navigation options and populate it with an HTML list of links to the appropriate pages within the site. But that feels like it violates the CMS model.