Drupal 7.x

hi everybody. i am new to drupal,and using drupal7 i constructed a site but i want to post events and news on frontpage just like in http://www.observer.com/. so please help me by providing some documentation or any video links and also tell me what all the modules required.
thank you for reading my topic

Interesting bug. I'm curious if anyone else has run into it. I'm even MORE curious if anyone has a solution since this site is 80% done.

When I logged onto my Drupal 7 site today to add a "page" I got the alert: "You have not created any content types yet."

Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade from Drupal 6.19 to 7RC. I followed the instructions, disabled all but core modules, set Garland as theme, deleted 'default.settings', deleted old 6.19 files, copied drupal-7.0-rc1 files to correct place and then navigated to the home page of my site. It warned me that Drupal was already installed. I clicked on the 'update' link and the screen failed to update. Now when I navigate to the home page, I get the following message:

hi all

i have a themed form and all dispalys fine but i cant seem to be able to change the value of the textfield elements here my code

<?php

function mymodule_form_awards () {

$checkboxes = array();

$rows = "SELECT * FROM {award_types} WHERE awardtype='award'";
$result = db_query($rows);
foreach ($result as $row) {
$checkboxes[$row->award_id] = '';
$form[$row->award_id]['DESCRIPTION_display'] = array('#markup' => $row->description);
$form['DESCRIPTION_' . $row->award_id] = array("#type" => "value", "#markup" => $row->description);
$form[$row->award_id]['award_imag_display'] = array("#markup" => $row->award_imag);
$form['award_imag_' . $row->award_id] = array("#type" => "value", "#markup" => $row->award_imag);
$form[$row->award_id]['reason_display'] = array('#type' => 'textfield','#required' => True, '#value' => $row->reason);
$form['reason_' . $row->award_id] = array("#type" => "value", '#required' => True, '#value' => $row->reason);
};

$form['date'] = array(
'#title' => t('Date of award'),
'#type' => 'date',
'#description' => t('Enter the Date of award'),
'#required' => TRUE,
'#default_value' => array(
'year' => format_date(REQUEST_TIME, 'custom', 'Y'),
'month' => format_date(REQUEST_TIME, 'custom', 'n'),
'day' => format_date(REQUEST_TIME, 'custom', 'j')
)
);

So I have a dev site that has all the same data as our live site. I made a copy of the dev site and upgraded it to Drupal 7. Ran into the below problem and just thought I would share in case it is relevant to anyone.

I followed the instructions in the upgrade.txt file. Everything seemed to work except for one of the database updates failed when I ran update.php. I tried just running update.php a second time and received the below message.

system module
Update #7061

* Failed: DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table system_update_7061 already exists. in DatabaseSchema->createTable() (line 623 of /srv/www/htdocs/sdma7/includes/database/schema.inc).

So I looked in the mysql database and the table system_update_7061 was there so I dropped it and tried to run update.php again. Received the below.

system module
Update #7061

I am developing a new field module and have come a long way. It is based on the file module. I am new to Drupal and this is my first coding attempt. I have most everything working, but when attempting to view the content data on the view tab I get the following error messages for each new column I have added:

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$field_document_docTitle in field_sql_storage_field_load() (line 358 of ....field_sql_storage.module).