Module development and code questions

I am creating a new content type-Article using cck. I dont want the defaults fields and options provided by drupal in the create content form. How to do that, any suggestions..

Is there a complete working example on this site showing how to implement a form - from a beginners perspective?

I have found numerous snippets and conflicting best practices and it leaves me quite confused. I understand the there is a forms API so I'm not asking for the customary link back to that part of the site.

A step by step, complete example would be excellent.

Hi
I already download and installed a terrific simple chat, wich is called "chatty" http://www.olivo.net/software/chatty/
I have an issue how integrate chatty with drupal is this possible to make from it a module for Drupal?

Please help me wth this!

If anyone is interested, I have some experimental code out there for drawing panels using OAT windows.
The Panels once drawn get submitted to the panel module by writing a '.inc' and a 'css' file to the layouts directory under Panels.

The panels layouts directory has to be opened up for writing, by setting permissions.

I'm new to Drupal, enjoying it thus far.

I was wondering if anyone knew of a module that allowed me to have users be automatically assigned into a role group based on their e-mail domain name (the site is one for a group of colleges, so I'd like a group for each school's students). I found Role Signup, which gives me a good starting point if I need to custom-code this, but I figured I'd see if there was one I missed that already does it.

Cheers,
-- Chris

Hello:

I have developed several custom forms and am saving the values to a database. However, I'm not quite sure how to get the values of the Select boxes. Supposed I have the following: