Post installation

I have 5.1 installed and I am having trouble getting the navigation set up the way I want. I searched the formus and the handbooks and I am even more confused. I am a newbie!

What I am trying to accomplish is to have a central site for my family, siblings, wife's siblings, etc. I want a menu structure something like this:

Hello everyone;

I have down loaded and un-zipped GD Library. Where do I install and how do I configure? I tried to place in module folder, like other modules .... No joy. Novice, Need help. Thanks.

I have a teaser view of several officer and staff bios for our organization. I would like to order the bios in a specific order.

I can't quite figure out how to do it. Is it possible to add a non-displayed field, say "Order" and put a number in it and then sort on that?

I am a rank newbie, so fairly explicit instructions are appreciated!

anyone know why the "submitted by ..." link works in firefox but not explorer?

hi all,
I tested my first drupal site (www.neoleader.org) in a subfolder www.neoleader.org/new so that I could take my time learning about it. When it came time to go live, I just remapped the domain name so that www.neoleader.org no mapped to the /new folder, so that I didn't have to move any of the content.

I've searched the forums but just wanted to get some *recent* recommendations for either best drupal module[s] or possibly just hand embedded code, to include images and display them in galleries (categorized or otherwise), either a node page or block.

NOTE: I'm partial to flash or some of the newer js galleries that emulate flash verus the old page through html type galleries. So I'm leaning towards recommendations in that direction.

Recommendations would include:

0) nodes versus non-node imgs

- DO drupal IMGs HAVE TO EXIST AS NODES to use them in galleries or single img embedding? Or is drupal smart enough to just pull them from a site directory without the need for either creating a node for each img and extra db tables to track them?

- If imgs don't have to be nodes, for those who have used both methods, what should i be aware of when using one method versus the other (limitations and things you may have found out the hard way after using one when you should have used the other)?

1) best method for uploading (for when you want user outside of admin to upload own files)

- is there a batch upload for imgs say from a directory
- is it possible to upload and embed a single img in a node/story while creating the node