General discussion

Hello,

I'm completely a newbie here and I'm totally losted.

I just installed Drupal and now it can be seen at

http://freshnemo.limingxu.com/index.php?q=

The problem is I tried to follow the documenation and I clicked into the adminstrative section, all I see is a recent acitivy log list. There are no links inside Adminstratrive section that leads me into other sections.

Right now, the only way I was able to get in module section and enable modules is because on the homepage, there is a link to it. The same thing with themes. But I'm missing out a lot of things it seems? Like i'm reading bryght.com, for "How To Enable, Order and Place Blocks", it says

1 Login
2 Click on administer
3 Click on blocks

I did clicked on "adminstrater" (in my case, i renamed it to "admin"), once I'm in there, where is "blocks"??? where is the link to "modules" or any other sections for taht matter? Did I do something worng? Do i need to enable somethign or what? or am I expected to type in the links in the browser manually?

FYI, when I used MySQL admin client tool to create the tables in the database, I got these warnings, I'm not sure if it's related?

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Warning: Do not know how to handle this statement at line 760:
REPLACE variable SET name='update_start', value='s:10:"2004-12-20";';

Can any of you gurus tell me how I need to proceed if I want to learn how to work with and design websites based on Drupal?

I have no problem with graphics, html, CSS, Flash and have been designing webistes using these basics, plus some javascripts. But I'd
like to know if I need to work with Drupal, what do I have to learn, and the best ways and steps to go about it.

I learn pretty quickly, mostly by reading and doing things hands on, but currently have no real programming background. I
know the basics of databases, but not very in-depth.

Does Drupal support both private and public forums these days?

I've spent a few months getting Drupal tweaked for a high school reunion web site. It's still evolving. If anyone is building a similar type of community site, rather than re-inventing the wheel, please let me know and I can just zip the whole thing up for you. There are some hacks but all have been done at the theme level so as not to blow away the upgrade path. I also have tweaked the Blix theme for the site.

It's pretty much a standard Drupal install except for:

I write a new blog post,and I want to add the hyperlink of correlative blog under this page.
Who can help me?
Thanks.

Why it isn´t at the right sidebar as in the past? It was really useful.