Post installation

I am brand new to forms and I need some help in how to implement them.

I am able to write a function which generates my form, but where do I can this function? Do I insert my code into a page? I know how to write a function which will make use of the form, but how do I implement that as well? Do I insert that code into a separate page?

What to do...

Using Drupal 5.0...

Just wanting to do some basic page switching with the phptemplate...I'm able to get it to serve up pages according to node type...but going to the front page doesn't activate the "if($is_front)" condition. I used a view to override the frontpage view...might this be my problem?

I'm using Garland theme in 5.0. I see administration pages with tabs, but I can't figure out how to enable tabs for my content pages. Any help would be greately appriciated.

I have a question about formating form elements. As of now, all of the form elements display one on top of the other in the order in which they were declared. I want more control of how the form elements are displayed. I want to be able to arrange the elements in a table.

How would I go about this?

Looking at the file http://drupal.org/files/sa-2007-005/SA-2007-005-5.0.patch and wondering . . . does everybody but me know how to do this? I hope so, cause that means somebody can explain it to me!

I think the lines with the " - " need replaced with the lines with a " + ".

The lines with " @ " might be international phone numbers, cotangents from some branch of math I slept through, or even web-pig-latin.

I'm new to Drupal and need some guidance with tab selections for pages or stories. I've installed 5.0 and I'm using Garland theme. When I work within Admin, I see some selections from the menue produce pages that have tabs at the top. How do I enable this for content pages that I create?