Drupal 7.x

Greetings,

I am new to Drupal 7, so please be gentle! I have a developmental site posted at cc.ejbdesign.com. I created my theme using Zen, and I'm ready to start populating content. I created a test article by accessing the Administrative Content menu and clicking Add Content. The article appeared on the home page as I'd like it to, but I also want articles to appear on my News & Events page. Is this possible? is there a better way to do it?

Thanks!

Eric

Hello all,
After a small search on this website, and toying a little with the 7.x drupal (on a local server), I'm seeking advice with drupal. I want to build a reviews site, and for security reasons, I choose not to implement my website on my own (my skills are too low to produce a sufficiently secure website, and my wallet tending to be small, I cannot afford to give the coding part to a professional developer), and so to go for a CMS. From what I can see Drupal seems really robust, extremely powerful and approachable with my (relatively moderate) coding skills.
Here is what I have in mind:
something quite usual for a reviews website, i.e. a given number of criteria, for which I give a note (say, on a scale of 5, for example using the fivestar module), and a list of pros and cons (I'm wanting to review musical instruments btw). That, I believe, is quite manageable with a basic knowledge of drupal (which I suppose I have), but I would also like any user to write a simple comment on the article, and to give them access to the same criteria with the same pros and cons, and to make automatically on the article page an average of the users' review beside the so-called author review. That is a bit harder, and I think it reaches the limits of my drupal knowledge...

I keep getting this error when I try to run:
cron, content,

Recoverable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in DatabaseStatementBase->execute() (line 2095 of /home/content/65/7930665/html/includes/database/database.inc).

any idea what would cause it?

I ajaxify a radio-group form element from the user register form within a form_alter hook like this

$form['ms_membership']['mpid']['#ajax'] = array(
        'callback' => '_ww_update_user_register_form',
        'wrapper' => 'replace_textfield_div',
        'method' => 'replace',
        'effect' => 'fade',
      );

in the callback function I try to find out if is actually called:

Scenario:
----------------
- Have a custom field (custom_field) on user account.
- Admin / user can update the custom_field via php using the following code:

$user_data = user_load($account->uid);
$edit = (array) $user_data;
$edit['custom_field']['und'][0]['value'] = $new_value;
user_save($user_data, $edit);

- Update on the custom field is done for a user '- user1' by either the 'user1' himself or 'by admin' using php.

After installing the drupal i got this warning. And this warning also seems me to be having trouble logging into the administration of the drupal installation for the admin user?

What do I do?

I got this after the install:
Warning: is_dir() [function.is-dir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/tmp) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/web/wno460307:/var/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/share/pear) in file_directory_temp() (line 2352 of /usr/home/web/wno460307/grothesolutions.no/bas21kurs.grothesolutions.no/includes