Post installation

Is there any way to take a node such as a page, story, or poll and make it appear in a block easily? I'm looking to have a poll appear in a block on the sidebar so it is easily accessible. Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks!

Each gallery and thumbnail looks fine per default.
I don't like the folder view though when browsing galleries.
Is there a way to simply use the same thumbnails (they are too small otherwise) and get rid of the file folder (blue) and replace it with a simple gray box as in the thumbnail view?
I assume its in the css file. Would appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction.

Andre

I have installed the 4.6.0 version of the captcha module in the 4.6.3 version of Drupal. I have configured it as the instructions say. I'm only using it for the initial account registration, so I'm not dealing with the comment wierdness. The image shows up and is legible, but no matter what is entered in the text box, it always fails with the following message:

"Please re-recognize the word shown in the image."

Hi All, thanks for all the help you've given thus far - can I beg a little more?

I'm working on a site for an educational institution, and am trying to figure out the most efficient way to implement my plan. Here's what I'd like to do:

I'm going for a dynamic weblog type of format, and ideally the main page would serve as a simple aggregation point for stories posted to the three major sub-sections of the site, titled "Students," "Faculty," and "Community," respectively. If that were all, I'm sure I could do it by creating each sub-section as a weblog with each set to promote stories to the main page, but of course it's a bit more complicated than that.

I'd also like to create sub-sub-sections for things like individual departments (under "Faculty"), athletics (under "Students"), etc. As I envision it, members of the English department, for example, would post to their department site and have the option to promote to the main faculty page. From that point the stories could again, either automatically or through moderation, be promoted to the site home page.

Is this possible? Would I do it with simple weblogs? Or would I be better off creating whole new Drupal sites at their own subdomains (faculty.school.edu) for each major subsection, with individual departments built as weblogs off of them? I'd really appreciate any help you can provide.

Trickier yet, could I go down even one more level, and give individual teachers the opportunity to promote stories from their pages to their department site?

I would like the "Popular Content" Block to show articles and images only. Is this possible? Currently it is also showing about pages etc. sometimes. Thank you for an answer in advance! I do appreciate it!

I would like to limit the theme switching ablity for the entire site to just the admin.

For instance I'm using the Organic Groups module and have one base theme and a theme for each group. The problem is a user with just authenticated staus can set their own theme when they edit their user account. I would like to limit the ability to switch themes to just the admin.

Any ideas?