Drupal 7.x

Hi. I am a total drupal and linux newbie, but a programmer so comfortable with tech speak. I've just installed ubuntu, used the update manager to install drupal, apache and mysql.

I have literally no idea what to do next. I've tried clicking around the menu's and typing in "drupal" and suchlike into the command prompt. I can't even find whereabouts on my hard disk all this stuff has gone!

I think once I've got going things will be very easy. Can someone point me in the right direction or to a page explaining some of this stuff.

My question might seem too obvious, but I'm new to Drupal. Problem is I can't figure out if in Drupal 7, I still have to download and install CCK and View modules, or they are already part of the core and I don't have to install them anymore. From CCK documentation, it seems as if only part of CCK has been moved to core in Drupal 7. In View documentation, nothing is mentioned, but I don't see any module for drupal 7 to download.

Thanks,
Mehrdad

I recently got my website up and running but when I put in my address it does not go to my home page. It goes to the thank you for choosing drupal page, why?

I searched for "API recommandation" and some other combinations, but no results.

I would like to see a strong recommandation for module developers, where to put what in modules. We have 3 files which almost every module has. I would like to see a few more files, which idealy, are included automaticly by the core, if they exists. These are: MODULENAME.forms.inc and MODULENAME.api.inc.

Many modules are developed VERY good, they come with REAMMEs, API.txt and so forth, but in time of development the code moves on, the API.txt might not.
I started to put "public" API stuff from my modules into an extra file, so everyone of my follow devs have a sneak into that file and pretty muchs knows what they can do with my module. The *.module file will still have enough code for block display, pages other hooks and so forth.

The only thing I don't know is if there would be an huge impact on page load if there are a couple of more files to inlcude.

Btw. I know that some modules come with MODULENAME.api.php files already, but there is only dummycode in there and I *guess* that shall help IDEs such as ZEND to provide helpers for faster development. I never use those myself.

It would be useful to have one page somewhere where we could see all the package names used for various modules so that developers had some chance of consistency of package names.

Right now I see that most of my installed modules are under "Other", but I also get things like one under "Content display" and another under "Content displayed" or some other subtle difference that really shouldn't be there.