Drupal 7.x

Hi, there,
I am a beginner of Drupal, and I would like to change the front page titles into the following format:
"author icon" Title "new window icon"
Clicking on "author icon" opens a list of all the articles by the author.
Clicking "new window icon" opens the story in a NEW tab/window.
Different "author icons" are assigned to authors, and the "new window icons" are the same in each node.

Im trying to create a content type, where the author is offered the opportunity to mark users, which later will be displayed as "user 1, user 2, user 5, user 8 etc..."

but how can I do that?
Im creating a custom content with a field with checkbox-option, but how can I make it automatically list every user - with a checkbox?

In my site I have created a custom field with the Entity 2 module, and the Profile2 module.

In Devel the data I want to display shows up under: [node:author:profile-main:field-signature]

But who do I check if that field exists, and if so display the value?

Thank you

This is D7 btw.

Hello Community.
A friend of mine and i were having a discussion and this site Drupal came up as a site i could get code modules for doing different stuff. I.e. Im trying to get code that lets me log unto a website. I've been poking around...downloaded and installed drupal for my pc.
But im still wondering where to go to find code an whether i could try it on my stand alone website thank you

Hi all,

Please help me to understand. because I don't know when to use dynamic query and when to use static query.

like for example I want to join three tables. table_one, table_two and table_three.
for static:

  $select = db_query('SELECT field1, field2 FROM {table_one} t1 INNER JOIN {table_two} t2 ON t1.id = t2.id INNER JOIN {table_three} t3 ON t3.tbl_three_id = pcl.tbl_three_id');

for dynamic:

Dear all,

I am trying to upgrade a fairly simple site but the upgrade failed when I run update.php with this error: I'm sorry! A fatal error seems to have ocurred with the database. We are investigating the problem, so please try again later.

I followed the guide (http://drupal.org/node/570162) to the best of my ability, and as I said, got stuck in step 9.