hello,
i've got D5 up and running, but i'm not sure what to do next. much of my site will be static, with a few expectations:
a blog
an articles/tutorials page
a portfolio that can organized and viewed by category (print, web, illustration, all, etc)
i'm also looking for a custom front page, and - eventually - some slight theming variations on individual pages (example: portfolio might have a slightly different layout than the articles)
i want the Blog entries to be promoted to the front page, and also be available (and sortable) on the Articles page.
and lastly, how do i position nodes next to each other?, or just position them in general? for example, on the front page i'd like to have a small "about" caption just below the header, and below that the blog lengthwise on the left side of the page and some images/recent work (also lengthwise) on the right hand side of the page next to the blog. sorta similar in placement to http://dfckr.com/
I've been looking through the handbooks, but much of the info in there seems to be geared towards drupal 4.7 and earlier.
i've been tinkering with drupal for a little while, but have never really created a "full fledged" site. i've got some basic PHP and MySQL skills, and am quite familiar with advanced CSS.