Drupal 7.x

I like to make a drupal-site, that is configured for a special hoster, including htaccess, some special modules and exampel-containt. The site is for beginners, that like to do some first steps with drupal7. Because of this, the installation must be very simple.

Lokal I work with a multi-site installation. So the beginners-site is in sites/beginnersite. I have made a virtualhost for it and in sites/sites.php set

$sites['beginnersite'] = 'beginnersite';

I'm planning on making a website, but when I start the website, I don't want it to be not ready. So I want to create the appearances, menus, links, text & structure of the website sometime before I put it online...on a web host server.

Also I'm dead set on using Drupal, so wonder if there is any way for me to do this using Drupal?
I'm on Ubuntu 10.04 and planning on using Drupal 7. Thanks.

just realized that I am in the wrong forum - moved to post installation

I need to post videos that play through a swf on my Drupal page.... but all the swf/flash resources I find are only for Drupal 6.

I love Drupal; I'm a huge advocate and use it when I can.

That said, a lot of clients and friends ask when Drupal isn't the best fit, so I'm writing a 3 part blog series on the topic: Where Drupal Doesn't Work, Part 1 - http://blogs.captechconsulting.com/blog/andy-pemberton/where-drupal-does...

I essentially wanted to create a custom content-type that lets the user upload a file.

So I created Content-type -named it - 'upload'- added the desired field (field type - file) and saved it.
The content-type perview showed the upload button exactly the way it is supposed to.

Then created a new content under this content type and published it but it does not show the upload options on the page.

Strangely the upload box appears in the edit and perview options for the content - but does not appear in the view options.

What is it that I am doing wrong ?