Post installation

Some of the blocks that come built into Drupal are great, but I would like to alter the title of the block displayed to the user. Since I cannot define this in the configure area of each block, is there a location within code that I can modify?

Thanks,
-=Vince

I'm currently investigating the possibilities of creating a community-specific news website and have downloaded and installed Drupal. So far, so good, I must say, most of the themes are neat and with my altering, they just might even become a bit neater ;)

However, as I said, I will be creating a news website. I'm not new at PHP coding, but I don't really feel like digging into the Drupal source code to make it work the way I want it to. I normally screw these kind of things up so badly, it's just not worth the trouble. Therefore, let us say I'm a total noob regarding PHP so I would not have to use my 1337 PHP skills0rz =P

I am Dutch, so I use the website http://www.nu.nl on a daily basis and I like the concept of that website. It supports six main news categories, including "general", "economical" and "sports" news. Those are listed in the left menu. In the main "content" section on the home page, it lists eight headlines in four of those categories, showing the title, a related image and a quote from the latest headline and just the titles of seven older news headlines. Clicking on one of the categories in the left menu, will list the last eight headlines including title, image and an excerpt from the text and another fifty or so titles from older headlines.

I would like to do the same on my news website (in a different layout and with different categories, but the idea would be the same), but I would like to have your ideas first on whether this would be possible without too much effort and, if so, which modules to install and use and how to configure Drupal.

When creating a new node, how do I insert flash?

- Special module required for this?

- Which input format is the right one? (Full HTML I bet?)

- Where to store the flash-related files?

- Pointing to the flash file, one has to enter the entire domain name and so on or simply the path from the root of your domain or Drupal installation?

Nice with any suggestions!

I am trying to hack a module and I looked through the handbook and the API to find the variable names that drupal uses for it's program. I was trying to look up the $cid variable to see exactly what it is and what it does and I was hoping there is a list that shows all the drupal variables and what they do. In the API I type in $cid or cid and nothing shows up. I did a search for it and just got forum listings of people having errors with those variables but I can't find a page that lists what it is and what it does.

Is there a product type "file" in drupal 4.6 ecommerce module? Or 4.7 only?
Looking to have a download store, and find a way to that. I've read a bit about a "file" product type, but it's not in the drop down list under product type in mine. I'm using 4.6.
Thanks guys and gals.

When I was running RC1 in the search options I had 4 content ranking options, in rc2 I only 3, is this a bug or a change in features ?

Cheers, Nick.