Drupal 7.x

Hello
I'm planning to migrate to Drupal 7. I have 2 languages website (En/De). URL sample are as below

English website
http://mydomain.com/de/?mod=view&id=2401
http://mydomain.com/de/?mod=archive

Hi all,

I would like to know what would be best way to setup a site containing archive of various texts.

My idea is to make users browse the archives via beginning letter of an author (A - authors beginning with 'A', B - authors beginning with 'B'), via list of authors itself (but I have a couple of text which were written by multiple authors), and by tags with would be added to texts according to content to reflect its most important topics.

An editor would need to type title, author and optional tags for a node containing the text.

I have a fresh-ish Drupal 7 install and I'm building a custom theme for it.

So I created a theme based on the ones I saw in /sites/all/themes/, and I created a custom html.tpl.php and page.tpl.php.

My question is what's the best way to determine if the current page is the drupal homepage for that site? I want to have a different header for the homepage than other pages have, and the header is contained in html.tpl.php.

Hello,

I need to have some content types viewable only from certain roles. But in D7 I only find a "View published content" under "admin/people/permissions". There are no viewing options for individual content types.

Clearly I'm missing something basic. Please help me understand what.

Hello,

With the new version of Drupal (7.0) I can't disable the link "read more" when I create a new page (for example the home page).
How can I do that?

Thanks you!

I have a league that has about 500 players in it. And we hold poker tournaments every day.

I need a ranking system that stores all the players "points" that they win in the game.

So for example: I would need to be able to input a tournament day, and all the players who won points that day and how much they won.... Then I would need the system to automatically add up a players points for all the tournaments and display this info on the website showing the players with the most overall points and so forth.