Drupal 7.x

I am new to using Drupal 7 and I am trying to create main menus such as news,entertainment and music but don't want any drop downs only the direct menu so when visitors come the site they can click on thews tab and get everything news and the same for entertainment and music. Even though the articles would be on the frontpage.

How do I set the default text filter to "plain text" for comments for authenticated users? They default to WYSIWYG and can choose the text format, which I would like to suppress.

I have a Drupal site that I would now like themed and some additional functionality added, namely:

1. re-organization and creation of sub-menus and a homepage that features most recent content posted

2. Themed images logo css

3. rss feed + import my existing blog to my account and give users blogs

4. ability to award users w/ "credits" and have a credit store where they can instantly purchase items.

5. integrate w/ social networking and allow login using openID/google/facebook

Please help! if you have any questions we can talk further

I'm looking for a developer to do occasional development work.

I have a small job to complete to continue with some theme work (not looking for a themer), simply displaying promoted nodes in the custom front page.

From there I would like to discuss implementing personalized calendars for users.

Cheers

Hi Everyone.I am new to drupal and just found out the blog api is no longer core and the maintainer of the package says it doesn't work for drupal7. I'm wondering if anyone is able to successfully use a third party blogging gui with drupal at all yet and if so how?

I got macjournal because its alot easier for me to get content on my site that way then navigating the pages themselfs. pls help!

Using the color picker in the the Appearance screen (with Sky theme) there is the option to set Links color and Links hover color but not the Links visited color.

I can do an override in my custom.css but then the color info is split into two separate CSS files which is bad practice.

How can I add Links visited (and Links active) to the color picker?