Drupal 6.x

I plan to use Drupal to build up my web site, which is http://www.hostingtag.com, and I want to change the display of the first page. Right now, it will list out the latest created articles, I want to display the first 5 articles for each categories (I don't have a lot of article categories, so the thought still make sense).

Is there any one can tell me which file I need to go to update? I am new to Drupal but I know how to do the coding.

thanks,

The "Split Summary At Cursor" button is a new feature in Drupal 6. It allows you to split your content creation into a summary and the main content. This summary is displayed as the teaser and can be different than the main content. When I first learned of this feature, I thought it was great. From a web-development perspective, it is. However, from a usability perspective, this button very confusing. The average site visitor or user will have absolutely no idea what this button is or can do.

People am a newbie to Drupal where I have just now trying to install my drupal 6.0 at my local server...
It asked for user information and email and I have given all the necessary details which it asked for, but finally it said the installation is complete along with a message that failed to send email below like this:

warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in D:\Mysite\AAAPC\drupal-6.0\drupal-6.0\includes\mail.inc on line 191.

Hi, I'm trying to the convert the Internet Services theme for use in Drupal 6 and I've been successful for the most part. The one thing that I can't figure out for the life of me is the custom search bar. In the 5.x version of the theme, the search bar was being called in template.php by the following lines and is defined by the following code in search-theme-form.tpl.php :

function phptemplate_search_theme_form($form) {
  return _phptemplate_callback('search-theme-form', array('form' => $form));
}

search-theme-form.tpl.php :

  global $user;

  if (!$user->uid) {
    $message .= '<div>' . t('Please <a href="@login">Login</a> or <a href="@register">Register</a>', array('@login' => url('user/login'), '@register' => url('user/register'))) . '</div>';
    $message .= '<div>' . t('<a href="@password">Request New Password</a>', array('@password' => url('user/password'))) . '</div>';
  } 
  else {
    $message .= '<div>' . t('Welcome @user', array('@user' => $user->name)) . '</div>';
    $message .= '<div>' . t('<a href="@view">View</a> | <a href="@edit">Edit</a> | <a href="@logout">Logout</a>', array('@view' => url('user/' . $user->uid), '@edit' => url('user/' . $user->uid . '/edit'), '@logout' => url('logout'))) . '</div>';
  }

Looks that I misunderstood something, but
I followed the instructions on http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0 for upgrading from 5.x to 6.0:

1. disabled ALL modules but the core ones
2. uninstalled the "update status" module
3. cleared the sites drupal directory
4. un-tared the 6.0 file
5. restored the settings.php file

and got a long list of error messages.
What is going wrong?


* user warning: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') ORDER BY fit DESC LIMIT 0, 1' at line 1 query: SELECT * FROM menu_router WHERE path IN () ORDER BY fit DESC LIMIT 0, 1 in /srv/www/htdocs/drupal/includes/menu.inc on line 316.
* user warning: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') ORDER BY fit DESC LIMIT 0, 1' at line 1 query: SELECT * FROM menu_router WHERE path IN () ORDER BY fit DESC LIMIT 0, 1 in /srv/www/htdocs/drupal/includes/menu.inc on line 316.
* user warning: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') ORDER BY fit DESC LIMIT 0, 1' at line 1 query: SELECT * FROM menu_router WHERE path IN () ORDER BY fit DESC LIMIT 0, 1 in /srv/www/htdocs/drupal/includes/menu.inc on line 316.

Need a developer to add image functionality to my site in progress.
I want to post images and I want users to be able to post images.
I am also having installation problems and will need theming help once the image posting functionality is up and going.

This is a completely free- form request so Drupal project can slurp any of your findings and or deveoplements back up when you're done if you want it to.

FAST!PLEASE!