Drupal 7.x

I am new to Drupal development and would like to know the best approach and best practices for creating the following block or view.

What I want to end up with is a grid that displays nodes of various content types. I'll use common fields or common field types between content types to create a similar thumbnail/preview for the diverse content types.

This seems like an easy question but I haven't been able to find the answer. My website is currently www.mywebsite.com/drupal. How do I get it to be just www.mywebsite.com? I use GoDaddy for hosting.

Thank you!

Hi under the "Account settings" I have added a field for first name and last name. I am trying to access these fields from a view TPL file. i have tried var dumping $GLOBALS['user'] and the field is not stored there. Any help would be great.

Thanks in advance

So I am basically look for how to approach a functionality. I have a album functionality working fine, user clicks on the album to get the photo gallery, then clicks on the thumbnail to activates the colorbox.

My client is now wondering a completely new functionality that I have never built before, here is the explanation:

Hi guys, I need some help.

Hi!

I am developing a site and a problem came up, and i was wondering if you could help me?
I am using profile 2 and I want the user to fill out some information about their school, such as:
School name
School location
And during which year he went to the school (date module)

So three different fields and then the possibility to get three more fields if the user went to multiple schools.

I've so far only found out how to get one field.