Post installation

After having played around for a while I finally think I've understood how taxonomy works, and it looks very nice.

I'm considering to redesign my personal web site using Drupal but being new to Drupal I'm not sure what is the best way to do it. So I would appriciate advice/suggestions for how I can do this in Drupal.

I've been playing with Drupal and set up several experimental sites so I got no problem with the really basic stuff but there are a couple of things I would like to have some advice/suggestions on.

I currently have a number of photo pages that I would like to keep "as is", I haven't got the time to redo them in Drupal. Can I just drop these folders into a Drupal site without problems or is there something I should think about?

For the new site I would like to be able to have photos embedded in my stories but the visitors should be able to get a larger version by clicking on them, either as a new window (with only the photo and possible a caption) or something similar to what can be seen on this site: http://www.cabel.name/ I could do this on a hand-coded site but what would the best way to do this in Drupal?

For some pages I would like to have a very "clean" look, basically only the content of the page and nothing more (nothing of the "normal" things you find on a drupal site). The design would remind visitors of the "regular" pages but be distinct from them, the intention is to use these for longer stories with pictures etc, I imagine them to open as new windows when the users click on the links to them.

I have found that taxonomy-block could help me make dynamic menues. If I set teaser to "0" it will give me just the title. However for this to be a really good menu I woul like to get rid of the read-more link. I've tried going through the code, but I'm not that good at it that I can find out how to exclude just that bit. Anyone done it?

I just want to make sure I am setting things up correctly. I need to categorize some content for a website. For example, if you had a category named "Restaurant Reviews" and then had sub categories of Mexican, Italian, American, etc with reviews under each category, how should that be categorized? I currently am using a Vocabulary for the top level category and terms for each sub category, but the fact that I have to use a php snippet to display the things under a specific vocabulary make me wonder if I am doing this correctly.

Hi,

I was submitted posts,blogs,pages... After clicking submit button the message is follows...

Your bolg is created or your page created....

fine..

where i can see these blogs or posts....in my site.... or how to seen these things.....

waiting for replay.....

harish...

hey there, i got this question about profile forms that you make when you go to settings >> profiles...

i can make a form of personal information like name, gender, age and stuff like this...

but my question is about AGE...

let's say that a user entered 20 as his age..
and i got his own birthday...
i want his information to change automaticly in his next birthday, which means that his age is 21...
do you know how to do it? or this feature is not avalible in drupal..

i'm trying to make profile for users, a good active one..