Drupal is up and running but how do I ...?

Make complex forms

I am trying to convert an old static site to drupal. So far, so good, except for the complex forms.

Here is an example:
http://deibler-insurance.com/node/34 is the form I would like to use instead of using the survey or contact module templates, like the other forms on the site are now. I just want to make them look a little cleaner, with drop downs for common things, etc.

Is it possible?

How do I decide the number of news on each page

I have tried Drupal only for a few days, but I find it very useful. However, I have one big designproblem.

I'm using the page to publish a photoblog, and as I integrate photos in each blogpost, my blogpage becomes "heavy", and it takes lots of resources to load it and to scroll down.
Is there any way that I can decide how many posts should be published on each page, before it divides the content into several pages?

I have tried looking up a module, and I have searched through some of the categories in the forum, but can't find it anywhere..

Classify attachments

Is there any way to classify attachments in pages/stories, as we do with the pages itself's?

How to load database scheme through MySQL command line?

hello
I know this question had been asked many times and i read all the threads but i want to know is it possible to load the data through the MySQL command line???

How do I restore 'cron' jobs, or at least cron functionality?

It seems as if everytime I get Drupal working properly, something happens out of my control, that throws things awry.

This time it is with my cron functions. My site, Anthropology.net, uses the most current stable version of poormanscron to run tasks periodically. I have noticed in the last month that I have lost some functionality in my cron jobs. For example:

  • Search Indexing
    Drupal has not indexed my site for sometime. Despite no changes in my settings for poormanscron or the 4.6 search module, I have not had my site indexed for the last 53 nodes... meaning cron functionality stopped rougly 1 month ago. You can see what I am taking about with this screenshot here. Everything looks like it should work, no?
  • DBA Module
    I use the most current stable version DBA module to make backups of my site. That stopped working last month too, with no intervention from me whatsoever.

I have, however, cron functions as far as news aggregations. The aggregator module works right on time without fail but I do not know if this module is run indenpendantly of poormanscron or not.

I have attempted to retrace any of my steps, i.e. adding new modules, etc. in order to troubleshoot what made this not work and I have no idea. I do not know if I should submit a bug report to either poormanscron, search, or dba, either. Has anyone else come across this problem? Could it be my host that has somehow disabled these functions since they maybe cpu intensive? Is this even a matter to be discussed with the Drupal forums, since no error log is being spit out for me or should I consult my webhost's techsupport?

How to embed a legacy website

I would like to use Drupal to integrate a couple of small (1-3 page sties) into a larger drupal site and still allow the individuals to continue using the tools they are using now (frontpage and dreamweaver) to maintain a small section of a larger Drupal site.

I am familiar with how to do this with Mambo, does Drupal have this capability too? They may be resistant to change since the editor within Drupal is very basic.

Thanks

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