Hey,
Here is what I did so far:
1. Created CCK named "Review" with fields: image (using image_field), title, rating, body. Title and body are text fields and rating is a drop down menu.
2. Created a category called "review" with the terms "review", "interview", "event" and associated it with the "Review" custom content.
3. Created a Views block which shows a List with the fields: Image (image_field) and Title.
Ok, so now this means that when I go to create content and choose review I upload the image (which I've set to be no greater than 50x50) and then I put the title, select the rating and fill in the body text. After that I choose which section it goes in under the "Review" category and submit. When I go to my front page where I have placed the box I get a view of the Image and then the Title of the Image below it. That works great but now here are my issues:
1. Since I am using image_field and I NEED the image to be 100x100 so it displays properly on the front page, it looks bad when someone clicks the title and goes to the actual full node-- basically, because there is now a huge page of text with a tiny 100x100 image.
I believe there are a few ways to solve this but here is my perspective. First, I could somehow make it so that I could hide the 100x100 image in the full body view and I could insert another Image into the body of the text. I suppose this could be done using the image_field I already have and then putting tinymce and imce (or img_assist) onto the body text field. The issue with this is that I would have to make 2 images (which isn't that bad and since image_field stores as a file it wouldn't be creating 2 nodes, right?).