Drupal 7.x

I need help. I am a noob designing a website for the first time in Drupal.
I am trying to use Views to design my layout. Yes I have
already enabled all the supporting modules to use this including ctools.

I tried to access the front page view by clicking on
structure - views - front page then the enable button. When I
Clicked on the button, I got the following error message:

I have been asked if Drupal can be used for a small book publisher workflow internally. Here is the basic idea.
1) Files received from author
2) Editor cleans the book
3) Published electronically or exported out to xml

After spending a months of evaluating different CMS solutions I can see why I probably want to invest into Drupal solution. While it's less mature in some areas (probably also because I used to work with MS/.NET) it's architecture still has a greater potential in future. Hope I'm right. At this point I would like to create a pilot and looking for hosting solutions. Now everybody wants his product to run as fast as possible. Since I'm still new to Drupal/PHP I cannot immediately identify possible Drupal bottlenecks.
At first I assumed Drupal is DB centric solution. Which means MySql is in most cases the major bottleneck (improve DB - application will fly). But after installing simple profiler I found no significant load on DB while it still took 4-5 seconds for application to react. In my .NET/SQLServer/Oracle local environment I used to have instantaneous reaction. Which made me rethink my initial assumption. Is Drupal actually File System-centric? Is bootstrap process goes through folders when loading modules or queries database repo to get modules list? If first is true then to have better performance we probably need a really good disk array to hold application files (some SCSI RAID-5 probably using SSDs). Which leads me to another question - where to host all this
- Having your own servers (a lot of extras - UPSs, Line, 24/7 support, etc. - whole new business)

Hi
What field type would you use to contain a length of time eg. 2:30:45 for 2hrs 30mins 45sec
in
manage fields -> Add new field

thanks

Rob

Hi All,

Is it built-in to Drupal to change the date to print "today" instead of a date format? For example, instead of printing Dec 24, 2011, I'd like for it to print 'today' for events that are happening today. Any luck?

Hi I have a content type called training and when I display this page, I want a related set of data about the training program dates appearing on the right hand block. I have managed to setup another tpl file in my theme folder called views-view-field--program-dates--block--field-date3.tpl (for a specific date field), done the re-scan of the templates and cleared cache etc and made sure this is the correct override file because I can put a //comment in front of the print $output and the file does indeed disappear.