Drupal 7.x

Hi all, newbie Drupal user here.
I'm in the middle of totally redesigning our internal/external web.
The internal web will/should have all the fancy stuff, news items, reports, photographs, collaboration, workgroups (create ad-hoc workgroups to share docs/discussions).
However, I want to make some news items available on the external web. Could I set up a node (or something) with totally different style and menu and make it look like a front page? Is that even possible with rewrite rules, since Drupal already uses url rewrite?

Hello Drupal Folk,

I am just creating a drupal site and had a thought cross my mind.

Is it good or bad etiquette to use a block on drupal if it is only being placed into one page?

I'm going to do that method to put something in the sidebar, but interested to know if that would be frowned upon by those in the big leagues.

Have a ponder and let me know your thoughts.
Cheers

Hey, I just installed Drupal but still need to get some understanding on the fundamentals of it all...

I have a website I'm working on now...I build the template, the nav menu, all that...it's ready for content to be put in. . Can I use the existing architecture I build and just use Drupal to insert content, instead of building/running the site through Drupal?

I have 2 blocks I'd like to have lined up horizontally, but they are put on separate lines.

WANT:
[Primary Links] [Google Search]

HAVE:
[Primary Links]
[Google Search]

I've even tried deleting all the CSS in my theme (I'm using Toasted), and they still don't line up! This leads me to believe it's the way the blocks are being created. I do see a function in the Toasted theme which has a $block as a parameter. However, when I changed themes to all the built-in themes, these too show the two blocks on separate lines...

I need a expert drupal programmer to finalize a web application on a very short time frame. Communication skills must be very high and the candidate must be expert or better at Drupal, CSS, theme creation and modification and report design. Most of my database design is done already, I just need the screen layout changed a little and most importantly reports generated.

This is extremely urgent, and needs to be completed in a specified amount of time.

Hello,

We all know that Path lookups in Drupal make a lot of micro-queries to database.

How to improve its speed?
One query to ask all paths on the page sometimes is 100x faster than a lot of queries to ask every one node.

My solution:

Firstly, we write text macro into content instead of calculation real value.
- drupal_lookup_path returns macro "%%%drupal-lookup-path-item-$id%%%" instead of real substitution.