Drupal 7.x

Hey everyone hows it going! Please excuse punctuation and grammar

Its late at night and I am overwhelmed. I have made websites multiple times using html but it has been a few years and i usually get by just by checking out other code and if all else fails i'll hop on dreamweaver (always feels like cheating). My friend has a business and wants me to completely redo his website which is hideous and i said i would. He is now changing it up on me half way through my design and says he wants to use drupal... which is great. If i could figure out how to install the damn thing.

Soo he has an FTP on Bluehosts and a the domain is held by go daddy. Also, he wants to have all the changes done off the internet, he wants the current website the same and intact until the drupal site is ready to post on the domain and completed.

So i have two problems, and i may be way off the map.

1. I'm am extremely confused on how to install Drupal but from what im reading, what i understand is to use drupal i have to upload it to the FTP and put it on the website and go from there... Well that a problem, he wants the website intact till the drupal site is finished and ready to go up..

Hello,
Drupal 7 is really fantastic ! But could anybody help me to have an alias rule in pathauto to change the user personal contact form path ?
Thanks a lot !

I've searched quite a bit and yes this question is asked numerous times, but the only answers I can find involve writing a bunch of php. That's fine, but I just don't buy it. I can't believe that with all of Drupal's awesomeness, there isn't a simple way to query a database and display the results in some cool Drupalesque fashion. That's 99% of web development for goodness sakes.

So please point me in the direction of how to do this.

Alright, so I'm trying to allow users to upload files to a private area on the site - so that I can review them, and repost them in a blog format. I tried creating a custom content type, including a file upload field, setting the upload region to be the private directory... but I can't get rid of the "Revision information", "URL path settings", "comment settings", etc, menu at the bottom. I want to keep it simple - name, file, explanation, and that's it. I'm running drupal7, and I know the answer probably lies in CCK or file settings, but I can't figure this out. Is it in permissions?

I created a custom menu, but when I add or edit a page I can't add the menu link to that custom menu. Any help?

Edit: Found it, it's in the content type.

Hi

In D6 I've used following CSS (styles.css) to be able to show filefield images neatly aligned horizontally instead of vertical.

div.field-field-NAME img {
display: inline;
padding: 3px;
background-color: #ccc;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
float: left;
margin: 5px;
text-align: left;
}

Now, trying this in D7, seem not to work. Anyone have a suggestion, or can explain why its not working in D7?

Thanks in advance :-)