Post installation

I tried to figure out how to create a page with many block with inside differents contents:

for example my Homepage should be:

1. last 10 news of category "news"
2. 3 "focus" articles
3. last 4 reviewed CD
4. musician on the month

Is that possible using blocks and css?
Is there a tutorial that explains how to create a page like the one I want to create?

thanks (sorry for this newbie question).

I installed the lightbox2 module turning "Enable for Image Nodes" on but when i look at the code of the image page i don't see any rel="ligthbox" tag on my link and the image opens normally. I tried to manually include the rel attribute on the image node link without success. Any Ideas?

My test site used tinymce and imce to add images to posts and it worked just fine. However, on my live site the imce button is missing from the pop-up box that appears when you click the tinymce image button.

All of my settings seem identical, so can anyone think what I might be missing?

I realize that drupal runs best on linux/apache but I have run 4.7 on IIS without too much trouble in the past. The biggest problem i have encountered so far is the need for drupal to be able to write files/make directories on the web server. Now for the initial installation I was able to get my web host to change the permissions on the server temporarily to run the install however I already encountered an issue when trying to use the color applet in the garland theme. Several errors occurred that were related to the write permissions issue one runs into with IIS during the install.

Hi all

I just tried viewing profiles by one of my profile items, but I got this error:

All my forms have the action with two trailing slashes at the front like so: <form action="//?q=something">. When I submit I get an invalid URL error from either Firefox or IE. I have updated the $base_url variable in settings.php (without trailing slash) but this has not helped.

I can't do anything with the site at all except update config settings and access the database in phpmyadmin.

Anyone know where I can change this? I think I was uploading themes and playing with tempaltes when this happened.

Cheers.