Post installation

I installed Drupal for the first time yesterday on a test account and everything went pretty smoothly. I am trying to customize the layout of Drupal. I am a bit confused about purpose of containers.

I would like to have a forum page similar to the one on Drupal.org. The leftside bar and rightside bar are fine on my front page.

I am not sure how to create a new web page for my forum without the leftside bar and rightside bar. How can I modify the layout of different web pages and take out the left and rightside bars?

how do you turn a word or a line of words into a link, eg if i had the word forums in a text block on my site, how would clicking on it bring me to the forums?

I've been using flexinode on 4.7 and it seems to be working fine for node views, but when i try to pull the same data from a block template, nothing shows up.

I've tried $block->flexinode_1;
$node->flexinode_1;

Can anybody tell me what i'm doing wrong?

I can't find anything in the docs about creating a "reset" button on a form using the new forms API in 4.7

I've tried:

'#type' => 'reset'
'#type'=>'button', '#button_type' => 'reset'

And anything else I could think of. I also searched the form.inc file for the words "clear" or "reset" and came up empty handed...

I have written a small php snippet included in the node-blog.tpl.php file to post a custom RSS link to each user's blog in each of their blog posts. I like this because on the /blog page people can quickly get an RSS link if they enjoy a user's blog. The code I use is below:

a href="http://www.mysite.com/blog/ print strtolower($node->name) /feed"

Hi there, I'm starting to use the agreggator2 module and I would like to know if it is actually possiblr to automatically filter feed items by keyword instead of showing all the items from a feed.

For example I could use a list of like 10-20 newspapers and select that they only show news for "dogs" and "cats"...

Is that possible?

Thanks a lot