Drupal 7.x

My drupal database doubled in size, from 15mb to 39mb in 1 month. I've had statistics enabled for 2 or 3 months, but I recently started getting a lot of traffic, so I think the size increase is directly related to the statistics module.
I don't mind disabling the statistics module, I don't think that will reduce the current size of the database, it will only prevent it from growing larger.

How do decrease the size of the database?

Hello,

Can you please help me with the following?
There drupal links as for example sitename.com/?q=user or sitename.com/?q=user/register that a user may use for direct login or registration to my site.

When I updated my version of Drupal to 7.10 and several other modules I got this message

Reminder: don't forget to set the $update_free_access value in your settings.php file back to FALSE.

All of the updates went through but I do not know what this means or how to do it. Can someone please provide some guidance. For example, where would I find the settings.php file?

Thank you

Hi Guys (and girls),

I'm building a website for a customer and since this is my first-ever Drupal website; I could use some help solving a problem. Thanks in advance!

Currently, my customer wants to organize workshops and have visitors of her website check the info and be able to sign up for these workshops. The workshops shown on the website have their own Content-Type and are regular ol' nodes. However; I want to add a button to each workshop containing a specific URL that has information on which workshop the visitor wants to sign up for.

Example:
For the workshop called "Foobar", the URL would be "(...)/workshop-signup?workshop=foobar"

To create these buttons; I've added a dropdown box (select menu I believe its called in Drupal) to the Workshops content type with a link added to the label. This way the link will be shown on the page and I can style it to a button using my theme CSS. Through a GET function in the webform (Webforms Module using Tokens for the GET function) I will be able to fill a field with the specific workshop title (probably using Node:title??).

Question:

First, I'm very new to Drupal, with very little experience. I've been banging my head against the wall a little bit about this, and was hoping I could get some advice or be pointed in a new direction.

How do I theme the user registration page/update account information page? You know, where you can update your user name, password, etc. I can't seem to figure out how to make a panel out of it. Or how I would make it into a block, or what I should do to make a 3-column custom layout with it using my theme? I'm using Omega theme as my base.

I want to create accounts for people while knowing only their e-mail addresses (mostly gmail and yahoo addresses), then have them be able to use OpenID to log in to those accounts. Is this possible?