Drupal 7.x

Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a security checklist for Drupal 7 or Drupal in general that someone could point me at. For example, I am looking for a list of things to check to make sure the site is secure before the site goes live.

Thanks.

On my D7 site I got news/articles that need to have one image file attached. Of course I could upload one image file to each node, but most of the images recur.
So I thought, the best way was to have something like a node reference but for images. I tried to solve this with a node type for the images and the node reference cck field. That works fine, but I only have the ability to check the image via the node image title.
Is there any practice to solve this, maybe by having a node image type that has tags that I can search for in a reference field on my "add article" page?

I'm trying to make dynamic meta tags...
I installed metatags quick, which is helpful, but I really need dynamic meta tags for my user created classifieds pages.
I copy and pasted the html.tpl.php to my theme folder but nothing I add shows up in the pages, very frustrating. It kinda stinks that the head was removed from the page.tpl.php document.
I also tried this in the template.php file but I don't know how to get dynamic results from the database:

I am new in Drupal but I like this CMS very much. Now I have a question (because I haven't found it in the drupal module list). Instead of of the rate module (the five stars are always very subjective) I would like to use a rating system like youtube: one button for "like" (thumb up) an one for "dislike" (thumb down). Is there any existing module which provides that?

Thanks a lot!

I am completely new to Drupal so have been learning by fiddling and doing a lot of googling.

I have almost got my site 100% completed but have run into a problem.

I have created a new content type for users to enter in data to certain fields.

I then created a view for that content and then found out the way to get that view to display was to create a page.

So yey I created the page and the view is displaying.

Hi,

I often create new sites on a Drupal 7 multi-site installation that have much the same configuration and use the same modules.

It would save me a lot of time if I could configure one site on Xampp and then upload that 'template' database to each new site when I create them – meaning I don't have to configure each one separately.