Converting to Drupal

Hey guys! Relatively new to Drupal but would love to become a big part of the community and start contributing to modules.

I am converting a basic site to Drupal. It is my own graphic design website. I was looking for some guidance on how to do everything the most efficient way in regards to Drupal. After completing this site I should have a fairly comprehensive understanding of Drupal, but I want to do everything "the Drupal way" so to speak. Sorry if some of the questions seem novice.

I am looking for suggestions on how to create the contents of the site such as using a node or block and what modules might help me.

Are blocks indexable by search engines?

The site for the most part is a static site with a contact page and some jquery and ajax. The front page consists of several divs
-a header (Logo, portfolio, Services, About, Contact)
-sub heading with links to provided services(Easiest way to go the services page and an ajax selection on the page?)
-top main div with a brief about us and a slideshow (planning on using galleria and/or jcarousel)
-directly under this div is a small email newsletter div on the left(is there module for newsletter signup that includes its own block?); a collection of social networking links on the right.

I am looking for a way to transfer my data from Drupal into a simple word processing format. Our website -- an International Media Directory -- has not gone live yet, and while we are working on finishing the website up we are hoping to publish the data in book form, and to publish in book form we need the data in a word processing format.

If anyone is aware of how to perform this data transfer, please reply.

Thanks.

I need to create a form that submits an email and records the info to the database and then can be accessed from within the CMS.

Is there a module for this already?

Hi all,
I have a problem here.
I'm using OG module and building many groups.
There are about 20 groups.
At least 15 groups of them want their posts to be private defaultly.
But the last 3 or 4 groups want their posts to be PUBLIC defaultly.
I used the "Organic groups access configuration" , but it seems that the visibility option in Organic groups access configuration works on all groups.

What can I do for it?

Is there any module to do this (To do the OG posts visibility control on each individual OG groups) ?

Thanks!!!!!!!!

I've added a select list field to one of my content types and have no idea how to populate the select list with options. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hello folks,

I am very new to Drupal, I have read through the introductory documentation and have fiddled with my own site a little bit. I am going to be reworking my college site to work with drupal, and have figured out how to implement every feature bar the menu system.