Drupal 7.x

hi..

im looking to develop a new website..

i am a newbie to drupal..

check this out..
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_sZh0peVZbn4/TZMeL2iWuPI/AAAAAAAAEIk/Z...
(src - yahoo answers)

that picture is just a part of an entire web page..

but according to my plans, my entire webpage revolves around these 3 columns..

1st columns menu..
2nd column category..
3rd column content..

How can I switch to a different theme for a specific page?
I tried to create a new page.php with this name: "page--node--4.tpl.php" but it doesn't work....

Modules like Taxonomy are old...are there working modules for Drupal 7?

I need this to create different regions with a different layout on different pages...

Thanks!

How do I tweak the vocabulary page. I know how to handle the fields on the vocabulary, but how do I tweak the nodes in the vocabulary. Right now it just shows a headline (which is hidden by css), the description and a "read more..."-link. I want to output it as a grid instead. Is that possible?

http://dev.vih.dk/subject-packages/boldspil <-- I want to tweak the node display in the bottom.

Why isn't this working?

$transaction_result = db_query("SELECT *, DATE_FORMAT(expire_ts, '%M %D at %l%p') AS expire_ts_formatted FROM {test_transactions} WHERE id=:id", array(':id' => $id));

Thanks in advance!

Hi I started using Drupal 7 at the end of december; I decided to take some months for trying to solve my issues by myself, after only reading the forum posts, avoiding to bore users with ordinary problems of a beginner, since the beginner is the real problem, not the basic drupal start up! ANYWAY now I have something to ask for the first time (and I hope to receive some significant response, that I thanks in advance); I'm asking because I saw post about this topic a bit confused, even because there are some variables that regards to hosted servers behaviours, which are individual, and so problem solving cannot always fit at the same way.
The problem:
I have a hosting for 1 domain 1 site with linux on, and my site still runs (I think almost perfect - drupal #1!-)
my site folder is not the root (/) but a subfolder: /drupalfolder/
I have a simple page index.html at the root, that has a link button (enter the site) to /drupalfolder/

so, obviously,going to the drupal folder, the url appears as: http://www.domain.ext/drupalfolder/homepage
and if navigating the site the value of url is:
http://www.domain.ext/drupalfolder/page1
http://www.domain.ext/drupalfolder/page2
http://www.domain.ext/drupalfolder/page3
and so on

basically, for seo purposes, I would like to get rid of the /drupalfoder/ in the url so it comes out someting like
http://www.domain.ext/homepage

When we create custom file for defining some link in drupal 7
then where we can placed these files in drupal and how to call them with anchor tag .path of file.

anyone can help to me...........

Thank You