Post installation

So I would like to create a content type that has the title, the date of the reception, the image and a description. The reason is that the organization has a monthly arts show and I would like them to be able to just enter the info into a few text fields and VOILA, the content is created with the proper layout (thereby also standardizing the layout).

So how would I go about doing this?

I am currently setting up a site, where I'd like to have a section on the main page with headlines, linking to a reverse-chronological list of "What's New...". This isn't for a 'portal' site, so I don't want that to be the main page, but would like to have a smaller block along the side or bottom with announcements.

A main goal is to give the site editors a consistent and easy way to add new announcements to the site. I don't want or need users to be able to comment on these announcements - this is strictly one-way communication.

There seem to be several ways to do this, but I'm not sure which is best.

I could have the editors write blog entries for this purpose, and the new entries could be shown on the main page using the "Recent Blog Posts" block. If I did this, though, I'd definitely want to change the block label to "What's New..." or "Announcements". It doesn't seem possible to change that through the admin menu, and I haven't been able to figure out where the label "Recent Blog Posts" comes from, even after doing a full grep search of my Drupal installation - where would I change that? The phrase shows up in /modules/blog.module, but if I change the text there the page won't load at all, so I'm guessing its more complicated than that.

Another option would be to set up a restricted forum that only the site editors could post to called "Announcements" or "What's New...", and then have a "New Forum Topics" block like on the Drupal site (again, changing the name for the block if I can figure out where the label comes from).

Hello,
I am new to Drupal. I installed and got a site running. I installed the image module which displays 2 blocks ( random image and latest image). It is aligned to left and can any one help me to hack the code to align it to center.
Thank you in advance.
Kind regards
Onesimpleman

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