Drupal 6.x

I just installed Drupal 6.1 and I would like to realise a simple site with two languages.
On the first page, the visitors could click 2 flags (language A and language B).
After, for each selected page the text is displayed according to the language. I don't want an automatic translation (local, content translation modules).
How to implement that with drupal ?

How to show blocks according to a global variable ?
If the global variable is 0, I want to display only the french blocks, if the variable is 1, german, 2 english ...

I know that I must put code under "Page specific visibility settings" but which one ?

Thank you

Is there a module for writing the html easier in drupal, like colouring it?.

Edited by: VeryMisunderstood; tagged thread for version in use by poster

I was wondering if there was any existing module that would allow a progress bar and also on-the-fly generation of a thumbnail preview of the uploaded image?

Kijiji.com implements this feature and I believe Craigslist also has a similar (albeit, more relic in implementation) feature. eBay.com also has a similar feature.

Is there also any known method of relieving the issue where if a user attempts to upload an image that it draws an error and requests a Subject Title if it were left blank?

Deep within our new site, I want to have a page for news releases. Ideally, our PR guy would post stories that were "promoted" to that page like it was the front page of the site. How do I do this?

I tried creating a newsrelease content type, but there's no way to specify the aggregation page like "/node". I guess I could do it like a blog, but I want the aggregation page to be a page within a book. Do I need to create a module?

See http://betasite.ccim.com, under "about" to see where I think it should fit.

i was just wondering is there a module where when the user uploads a picture a module can actualy change it to the size it should be?

example user chooses a picture that is more then 100X100 and the limit is 100X100 is there a way i can get it to automaticly shrink the size ?

sorry if ive posted this in the wrong location