Installing Drupal

I cant seem to figure out how to customize anything besides colors and font sizes...this isn't good enough for me, it looks really bad...

Besides just style configuration, how do you customize...

I know plenty about html, but novice on other things...can you just head me in the right direction on how to start the customization, does it have anything to do with html??

I'm completely lost...cant see where to start...

Basically, this is what my site looks like:

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I would like my first page to contain:

the content of the taxonomy_search page on top
the content of the taxonomy_html page in the middle
and some of the newly published nodes, below the first two items.

Is this possible?

If I select "create book page", the page that comes up has only one selector list out of the three that it should have: It should have one each for the three vocabularies I have created.

Is this a feature or a bug? It is true for both IE on Windows and Safari on Mac. I am not sure if there is a setting somewhere for this?

If I select "create story", that page is almost OK: it has all three selectors, but only the top one, "Classification" is labeled. "Target Audience" and "Population" are not.

I have been using Drupal for a while now and my site is ready (just :-D ) to be submitted to search engines, however I need to insert keywords for each page.

Is there any way to do this through the admin interface or just any way to add keywords? Preferable custom for each page/node.

Thanks for any help and a great product, perfect for what i wanted!

I've been looking for a portal/cm/blog solution and I believe Drupal would be about the best choice for what I have in mind. I've been reading the install instructions and I'm a little leery. I've done installs of BBs and Shopping Carts and some small stuff, but always through FTP & my browser -- and always with very detailed descriptions including what files to chmod to what settings.

I have an internal application at my site which presents a web-based form, then prompt the user to log-in. If successful, it sets a session cookie with an MD5 contained, which is then used for single sign-on to any other enabled site.