Post installation

Hi

I hope someone here can help me out on this one, I have been reading through the Forums and downloading modules, etc to try and get what I think should be a simlpe thing working.
What I want to do is associate a thumbnail image with a Taxonomy term. I have downloaded the Taxanomy_image module, installed it and configured it as best I could per the Readme file. Followed the instructions and assigned a thumbnail to a term. So far so good, now I want to add a news item to the front page using the Blog mudule, everything goes in its place except the picture. Now I looked at the Install file but it says something about inserting some code somewhere in the theme files ( it does not say which file or where in the file to put the code). I tried adding the code at the end of ../theme/pushbutton/xtemplate.xtmpl but that did nothing. I also looked at the contributed code in the Taxonomy_image module directory and that scared me ( I am not a php programmer and I did not want to break my website) as it seemed a big chunk of coding to do a simple thing, plus the example was for another theme.

The second part is I want the text to wrap around the thumbnail, instad of being thumnail image being at the top of the post with nothing next to it and all the writing under it. An example of what I want is at this website. http://www.tuxme.com/

The modules I have downloaded so far to try and achieve this are -

I posted a topic into a forum with front page show option. After posting, it showed up in the front page, but it did not show up in the forum index.

It shows "-1 New", but did not link to any doc.

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Hi,

Have a look at a page from my site:
http://blog.photos2view.com/photos-by-marco/travel/china/tour/china-day-...

If you're looking in IE, the right sidebar will fall down... below the pic
In firefox the pic will go under the right sidebar.
I don't want to make the pictures any smaller...

Hello,

My first drupal site is up and going now, formatting wise.

However, most likely due to all the CSS, the first page to be displayed on the site (if you haven't visited it before and thus do not have the CSS cached), is very slow. Last time I tried to open up the first page, it took 17 whopping seconds for the first page to display! All other pages then displayed almost immediately.

I am trying to restrict anonymous user to access the forums. Is there any way to do that?

Greately appreciate your help.

I'd like to have the 'home' page do the following, in the following order

1. Theow the latest blog post
3. Show the next four blog posts as determined by the original time stamp show up as if they were in a 2x2 table (table would be needed with appropriate padding etc. The dimensions of the 'table' would be body width wide by enought height to show the title, extract (I guess I mean the abbreviated post) then a link that says [Read]. IT would need to respect any image dimensions that are included in the post.
3. Then the next 3 days blog posts