Post installation

I have just abandoned my ambitious one-man CMS project in favour of Drupal. (Finally getting tired of reinventing the wheel and maintaining it alone... :P) And thus I need some help to a task is really important for my website. Allthough there are thousands of pages with documentation and forum posts here at drupal.org I have not been able to figure out how I can publish files uploaded to a folder via FTP. Allso I'd like to keep download statistics of published files, as well as present them in a nice way.

I've installed the image module and image_assist module to work with TinyMCE and everything works great! I give kudos to everyone involved in working on those projects. I found that there is a difference between sitewide galleries, and user galleries. What I would like to do is associate the gallery with each user, so that they do not have access to admin galleries, and would like to have them and users able to access their gallery from the nav menu or to have the gallery associated with their profile pages. Is this possible? Does this have something to do with taxonomy?

I am planning to set up a drupal site for the internal communication of a local branch of a NGO. The content (documents, discussions, etc.) is confidential information.

How can I make the installation as secure as possible?

From other forum topics I understand that I should
1) use https://example.com as base URL
2) limit access only to registered users
3) disable registration and manually register the user who are allowed to access the information

http://www.gassavers.org

I just recently noticed that my site is taking an extra second to respond to any click. While it isn't too bad, it's enough to get me worried.

I don't know of a point where it all started happening. I'm assuming it's due to excessive MySQL queries, but i have no idea where to start.

Does anyone have any quick solutions to freeing up resources or making response times faster?

now i use theme gworks i want to know how to change font and font size pls
where to edit ?
thanks

I have a XOOPS site with a forum (newbb) that I am trying to convert over to a drupal forum. I have managed to merge the xoops tables and add the data to the node table as well as adding the nid and tid's in the forum table.

I've updated the sequences table and set the term_node values to: node id (as seen by going to /node/xxx) and the vocab number of the forum vocab.

Can anyone tell me where else I should add data to get the nodes to show up?

Thanks