Post installation

My first post ever here, much of a nubie with Drupal.

Please, don't tell me to search. I've been searching and taste-testing possible solutions for 2 weeks now.

Drupal 4.6.3
PHP 4.3.9
Apache
MySQL
CPanel

I first tried the easy Drupal way: I made a page in Drupal and then went into the admin settings and placed the node/XX information in the correct slot. I hit save. No custom 404.

Then I tried the old fashioned way. I hard-coded a 404 page and changed the .htaccess -- nope. Then I placed the URL to that page in drupal's admin -- nope.

I would like to have a node moderation / workflow system without having to give my moderators "administer nodes". The main reason for this is that I'm using taxonomy_access for restricted content (restricted from the moderators in some cases). I would like these moderators to have the ability to view unpublished nodes and toggle the publish flag on any node they can update according to node_access. I've looked at the code to some degree and couldn't come up with a clean way to implement this.

Hello,

Hello!

I want to count downloads of the file located at my site and see the results at the statistics page. How can I do it? I know about the "Download counter" drupal module but I can't understand how can it help me.

Thanks & Good bye!
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WBR 7 WBW, Vitaly

I am new to CMS' and I just want to know what I need to do to change the overall look of everything. Is there a specific page I need to edit or do I implement my HTML template somehow?

I'm so lost. I like the layout to the default theme, I just need to add a few things here and there and so far I haven't a clue where to start.

Thanks,

Erika