Post installation

is there a simple way of validating the users email-address on registration, e.g. sending them a link to activate their account? excuse me if i missed something but i searched the forums and also looked thorugh the drupal documentation but found nothing. i'd appreciate if someone could help me quickly. thank you!

hi
I m using drupal for my website
my website I m providing users free multimedia like movies and stuff but I m having a problem I m generating enough ad revenew for me to keep the site up for too long now

and I need advice I found some advertisers for my website so I want to do something like this that in order for the user to view the media they have click on the ads so that my advertisers can pay me and I will be able to save money for the website

Hi,
I really like the contact form here on drupal.org. I have a site using drupal 4.6 and would like to upgrade just the general contact form module. i tried ver 17 from the cvs, but it did not work for me.
i looked here:http://drupal.org/node/45117 and here http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/contact but could not understand how to make the contact form work.

Ok.
This might be a newbie question. and I am trying to do the research before asking the questions on here. (honestly)

I am working on a prototype of a community, I am wanting the users of the community to have a blog page. (got that working). Now here is the question.I want to have the blog page, have a smaller logo, and the Users name in letters in the header area. like "Guy Shepperd's Blog"

I am using a modified freinds electric theme. I have a feeling it has to be done either by modifiying the pag.tpl. or by making a php snippet.

My logs show this problem:
filter/themes/argeebee/layout.css not found.

This "filter" directory does not exist. The path to layout.css is:
/www/themes/argeebee/layout.css

I don't if this is related, but when I try to post content, paragraphs look like <br /> with no blank line between paragraphs.

...it's not very clear what I'm supposed to do to make it work. Using Fantastico, I installed Wordpress 2.0 and then installed the podpress podcasting module. It was easy and from the WP install to listening to my own podcast RSS feed it was about 20 minutes. But Wordpress doesn't do everything I'd like, so I uninstalled it (OMG it's so easy to do with Fantastico it's probably fattening or something!).

But problems galore with Drupal 4.6.5. It was easy enough to install Drupal using Fantastico, but that's about where the ease-of-use ended for me and my blog. Perhaps there's something blatantly obvious that I'm missing here, but there doesn't appear to be any easy solutions to podcasting with 4.6.5. I currently have Narkoba's module installed, but it keeps trying to play m3u files and Windows Media Player is having a problem with those. Plus, I just want it to play mp3 files straight up, using a mini player installed on the blog entry page itself...like podpress does. I don't want the user to have to download the file in order to play it.

The Drupal audio.module is apparently for 4.7, so that's not an option (or at least I haven't found anyone who says you can do it).

Why does it have to be so hard? I would rather use Drupal for my blog than Wordpress because Drupal is more flexible and has other capabilities built into it, but does that automatically mean that it has to be a royal PITA to configure every time I want to add some new capability to my site?