Installing Drupal

In the profile I have set avatars. It allows users to upload avatars from their own system, cool. I would also like them to be able to choose avatars that I have uploaded to my avatar folder. How? :-) Tnx!

After installing an import.module, feeds are importing in a wrong coding - not utf-8(b.w. my browser doesn`t even recognize this encoding). And this is happens with all russian rss-sources in my news feed:(
And my taxonomy is not working with news feed, just no one of rss-feeds is marked with terms of a new vocabluary for feed news.

I cannot figure this one out -- and yes, I've searched this site, read the docs. I'm just missing something, I guess.

I'm working on my template for my site and doing OK, however, it is not displaying "read more" in the links under the teaser -- when I switch to the "marvin" template that came with Drupal, it does, but not in my own.

Hi. I have downloaded and uploaded Drupal. I am getting this error: Unable to select database

How can I fix this?

I viewed the page http://drupal.org/node/view/2585 but am still having problems with image.module.

The images, thumbnails are uploaded and created. I can see them on the
server but what is the drupal syntax for linking to them from static pages? (A normal user would not see the actual name (e.g. img_9a27969cb3bd1c238f10332fff666dee.gif) on the server)

If I check the content management I see that
the image node_id=26,
the title=myimagetitle

Hello:
I would like to optionally add an image to my blog entry. I know I can use image.module for creating personal gallery and quote the image when creating a blog entry but it takes much time and not very intuitive.

If there is an optional field in the blog entry submission page, that would be perfect. I found that using attached file module might work for this but don't know where/how to modify. (I tried to modify node.module but failed)

Is there anyone out there using the attached file module for photo blog?