Before you start

I recently created a website using Django but found its permissions system too inflexible for my needs. It appears Drupal's is more flexible, but I'd like to confirm before I port my website over. What I need is to define lots of content types. Then:

I just installed Drupal to investigate whether it is viable for the website I'm building. I will have many content types whose fields include other content types. But I don't see this possibility when creating a new content type. Is it possible? If you are familiar with Django, I'm looking for something analogous to its ForeignKey field type.

I am an experienced PHP programmer and I know SQL. But I am a complete noob when it comes to Drupal. I have spent an hour or two browsing the getting started documents.

What me and a few friends are planning to do is this: (we know what we are getting in to and plan to spend years on this)

Hello everybody,

i developed with drupal in its very early versions. Now im starting again, being a bit cut down by the huge dimension drupal reached. Congratulations on that by the way.

I now want to create a website which is pretty dependant on where you are on the page.

You have 4 Major parts on that site.

A header, containing a image bar, whose image will be different on ANY "node"

A sidebar ( left ) menu which is static and leads through the major part of the site.

The content in the middle of the site.

Hello,
Is that possible to show in block node image. image are in text field whit text

Hi

My son's school has asked me to get them up and running with a new website. They're currently using Joomla. The government webhost is Managed Internet Service on SunOS. Something I know nothing about. Additionally, they state "... some scripts require Safe mode OFF ... these scripts will not be able to run from your MIS webspace."

Am I out of luck, or is there a workaround to have Safe Mode on with Drupal 6 or 7?
7 preferably.