Drupal 6.x

I've got my site mostly up, but I want to create a box that displays blogs that have been recommended by other users ...
Can someone help?

Oh and I want the user to be able to create a signature. My template doesn't seem to have this option.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and join my site if you are into that kind of thing! I'm not much of a web guy.

For two reasons I have to use 'private' file system
(1) hide the true path of download files
(2) use download_count module which requires 'private' file system.

Drupal forces the user avatar to reside in the file system folder, then the dilemma under 'private' file system is that the avatar can not be displayed for anonymous users.

Maybe I missed something, but really can not solve this problem.

Hi guys,

I'm a newbie to Drupal, just downloaded and installed Drupal 6 and am currently playing around with the features.

I am trying to do a site with a structure like this:

www.family.com/father
www.family.com/mother
www.family.com/brother
www.family.com/sister

I have created a block for my front page, and i have turned it on in the content section only on the front page, however I still get the "Welcome to your new Drupal website!" loading above it. How can i turn that off so it's just my block at the very top of the front page?

I am looking at modifying the Marvin theme. i would like to add more regions as it only has left and right regions to add blocks too. I have added these regions to both the Marvin.info and Chameleon.info files but it does'nt seemed to have made much difference. Do i need to modify the css. Any suggestions...
I am fairly new to drupal.
Thanks.

I am new to drupal.
Some information of my article is really important for visitors. So, I want to build customized field for them. The fields my both be browsed and searched. Is there any good methods/
Thanks a lot!