Drupal 7.x

Hi,
I have running Drupal locally on my computer but connecting to a remote MySQL DB. I am able to connect fine when I add my actual IP address to the allowed connection IP's, however, because I work at a number of different locations I figured I could set up a no-ip.org address to automatically redirect to my IP address wherever I am and add that to my allowed connections list (EG, brian.no-ip.org) . This does not work. Does anyone know if this is possible? is there an extra work port I am missing? work around? Better way of doing this?

Thanks,
Brian

Email failed creating new account. I am not sure what is happening however when I create a new account I enter a user name and email address. Drupal 7 did not send me a verification email but instead gave me a message that the email was unable to be sent and I should contact the system administrator.

I could not find an email setup for drupal and I also noticed that I only have one type of user "administrator".

1. How do I set up an outgoing email for my drupal website?

2. How do I setup new user types? ie subscriber, author, registered user, etc

Thanks

Form is not updating fields by AJAX in IE 6/8 (in FF, Chrome it works fine)

in my form element I added:

'#ajax' => array(
      'event' => 'change',
      'callback' => 'ajax_region_change',
      'wrapper' => 'user-register-form',
    ),

in ajax.inc

function ajax_region_change($form, $form_state) {
	return $form['account'];
}

Also for test I modified ajax.js to

I am not a web developer. When I upload an image to a page in Drupal 7, the image always ends up at the bottom. How can I insert the image at the top or anywhere I need to within the body? I would like to even write some text and insert and image along side it. Is there any way to do this?

I'm evaluating CMS products for a customer of mine. The usual Blogs, forums, articles, stories, pages, etc. are all pretty much handled by most CMS's out there. I am a fan of Drupal and the community. However, I need to investigate a really important aspect of the website that is a must-have of the CMS.

The structure(s) I need to build include Stores and Products. There can be many Products, with a Product Classification Hierarchy, and Stores, that need to show the inventory for each Product.

Products would have the following Hierarchy:

Product Type --> Product Category --> Product Sub-Category --> Country of Origin --> Country Region --> Product

Also, I need to be able to load and display Product Inventory by Store/Location. Would you create a content type for these?

I've been investigating how this might be done in Drupal first, then compare it to other CMS's for my evaluation.

My research so far points me to this solution in Drupal:

1) Store Content Type
2) Store-Product Content Type (to hold the Inventory for each product, for each store as in, an intersection table between Store and Product)
3) Product Content Type with multi-taxonomies to handle the Product Type Hierarchy.

There is also the ability to have a further Price Categorization, but these would be a set list (ie. $0 - $9, $10 - $19, $20 - 29, etc.)

I am so frustrated. I am trying to create a page in Drupal 7. It contains a Panel which I configure correctly. When I try to add content to the panel i.e. a widget or custom block, I get this horribly ugly error!.
An AJAX HTTP error occurred.
HTTP Result Code: 500
Debugging information follows.
Path: /drupal/panels/ajax/editor/add-pane/panel_context%3Apage-login%3Apage_login_panel_context/middle/block/user-login
StatusText: Internal Server Error