Chaps & Chapesses,
I'm entirely new to Drupal and to CMS's in general, but I've managed to install it on our webserver in college, and am getting to grips with it. There are three things I've got particular problems with though, so I was hoping you could help me out.
The web address is: www.hughsrowing.com.
i) I've installed the 'event' module, and want to use it as a general calendar of events for the whole site, so that people can contribute races and training sessions etc to it. I'd really like to set up a separate 'event' node type, but have no idea how to do this - I don't want to just use 'page' or 'story' or something like that? I think this page is devoted to this problem: http://drupal.org/node/27053, but I couldn't get the module to work, as it just produced lots of colourful php code when i tried to load it up, which filled my browser window? Presumably there must be a simple way of adding a new node type!?
ii) I don't know how you can create multiple little boxes / pages on one page, like they do on the front of drupal.org. Basically I'd like the news page to be able to be added to, with the latest story in a separate box at the top etc. Is it possible to do that with the one page, or is there some kind of module I need, which links lots and lots of 'news' pages together in the one place?
iii) How on earth do you control access to who can write to pages? Sure you can give page write access to authenticated / anonymous users, but if you want anybody to be able to authenticate, and only want certain people to be able to edit certain pages / types of page, is there any way of doing that? Basically on my site, I'd like to be able to give specific people the ability to create new page / gallery / event content, but give everyone the rights to the 'wiki' page? Is this possible?