Post installation

I plan to have tons of nodes on my site under all different tags and catagories (taxonomies). I was wondering if there was an easy way to have each catagorized page able to be sorted by the user either by popularity (vote up/down) or newly submitted items etc. Also with popularity, maybe there could be an option for recently popular, popular for the week, month, etc.. I know you can use views to make pages for each criteria but theres going to be so many different pages for each catagory and tag etc, it would be a nightmare to set up.

I'm new to drupal and I'm just getting used to it.

I have a vanilla install and I'm looking for the MAIN Add-On modules I should install.

Also, I'm looking for the modules which will help me put images into my BLOG posts and a quick explanation on them. Specifically, do I need to LINK to images which are already posted on site or can I upload directing INTO my post and format the image?

Would love to get some help. It appears there are some add-on post editors I should install also?

Thanks

-Steve

OK...I've installed the audio module and have it configured and it seems to work fine. However, what I'd really like to do is be able to set-up my Drupal site so that I can create a blog entry and optionally have it have a podcast link (much like http://www.lullabot.com/podcast).

Right now, I can create audio content and blog content. What I want is to just create one kind of content (let's call it blog) which may or may not have the podcast flash player, i.e. be a podcast.

Hi, I have Drupal all set up and it's great, but I am very confused.

I want to set up 2 or 3 sections where I can post news every day and the latest news items will appear on the homepage.

I also want to put a link on the menu to post the the index of news categories where people can see what section of news they want to look at.

I tried looking around but confused myself even more.

If someone could give me a little info on how to do this it would be great.

Thanks :)

I installed the Links Package and Web Links Module - but instead of going to the target site from a link in the node page, I want it to go to the site when a person clicks on the Node title directly. Right now that takes them to the node full-desc page.

Which code do I have to edit to make this work?

Also - I noted the target=_blank option in the links package doesn't work. Even though it's enabled, it still replaces the parent page when a link is clicked instead of opening in a new window. Any way to work around this?

Thanks for your help

I've made several minor modifications to some core modules for my own installation. Is there a better way of making customizations, through hooks maybe?

The changes I've made are: