Post installation

I have a pre-existing site powered by home-grown PHP, which I'd like to replicate (more or less):

• home page with a small amount of textual content, and some links pointing to my blog:
  • latest entry
  • previous 5 latest entries
  • 5 most recently modified entries
• a "section" for my blog entries, whose urls were of the form ("/log/entry-url"). If I went to the section without requesting an article ("/log"), then an archive listing was displayed.
• a couple "static" pages ("/details", "/leave")
• a page for a contact form ("/note")

I got Drupal installed and minimally configured, and I have made a couple pages with the nice url alias I'd like. It's the "non-page" content that has me confused. I also figured out how to set one of my static pages as my site's front page, but I'm not sure that's what I want. I've searched through the forums and docs, but I must be missing something somewhere.

It may be an "obvious" reality that this will take some finagling, but Drupal's methods are pretty foreign to me. Specifically:

• I see there are "modules", which I understand to be plugins of a sort. I can configure them, turn them off and on, and so on. What I don't get is how to tie a module to a url, as opposed to a static page. If I need to I'll make myself a module to do just what I want, but that still leaves me with not knowing how to use it. ;)
• How do you keep track of the articles you've posted? I can't see a list anywhere, making this very cryptic: "To edit or delete existing content, log in and then bring up the page you wish to edit." It's okay if I'm posting it right away and remember the url alias, but what about drafts and so on? Do I really have to remember to bookmark every draft I make so I don't "lose" it? (I know it's still in the database, but I'd have to go dig through it to find it.) That can't be right. ?

Thanks for any assistance you can give. I'll go back to search some more.

Hi,
i have installed the banner module and when i installed 2 different banners one went fine but the next one it is sayin the status pending for the banner when i m the admin can someone please let me know how can i change the status of the banner from pending to approved or active
thanks

I've installed Drupal and the CivicSpace theme. But when I switch to that theme my site slogan disappears.

I've ticked the toggle box for "site slogan" on all the relevant theme-configuration pages: "Global settings," "Civicspace," and (the layout I'm using) "Republica."

With themes other than CivicSpace, my slogan appears.

I'm using Drupal 4.6 and the latest CVS version of the CivicSpace theme.

Advice (for a newbie)?

Thanks.

I need to register users on a library database so that they have access to the library through the site and it would be very handy to collect the information just once. I also need a few more pieces of info on them so I thought I might just extend the drupal user profile for this purpose but I have one or two questions.
Does drupal permit the extension of the 'account settings' category or must extensions be put into a separate category?

I've got a custom node module with the following path:

q=node/66/appointment

which displays a list of appointments associated with a node ("66" in this example.)

My dilemma is that when appending the additional arguments to the query string the primary node navigation (i.e. "view", "edit") and node title disappear.

For example:

q=node/66/appointment/details/57

where "57" is the ID of an appointment.

I have defined a dynamic path in hook_menu as type "MENU_CALLBACK":

Is there any way to link Drupal to Owl (the document management system)? I have a lot of pdf files that I would like to store in Owl and have them linked as part of content in Drupal. That way the user can bring up any document shown as a link in the content?

Thanks