Module development and code questions

I am showing a site to a client tomorrow with two different themes installed. I've now got the designs I want, but wondered if it's possible to have panels working for one, but not for another?

What I'm aiming for is one site having a normal front page where the user can promote content to the front, but the other theme having a custom front page using panels. (I've set the panels path to 'node'.)

I'm sure there's a simple solution to this, but I can't seem to get my head around it.

I have just migrated to Drupal, and would appreciate some advice;
Is there a module which deals with documents?
i.e My site includes a large collection of .pdf research documents, which I want to distribute into catagories, allowing visitors to quickly navigate and find the document they need, and view online or print.

Any ideas?

Currently, I'm the maintainer of the trackback and node_privacy_byrole modules, but really so in name only. I haven't had time to take care of those modules or to port them to 5.x. It also seems I won't have time anywhere in the near future.

If anyone is interested in taking over the maintainence and development of these modules, please contact me via http://drupal.org/user/11703/contact

Everything seems fine with send, except that it doesnt send an email. Ideas?

This is probably a stupid question, but here's the situation. The News Aggregator module is working great, placed the block with the latest items from the feed into a sidebar... so far so good. It works great when I am logged in, however the block completely disappears when I am not logged in.

I set visibility settings so it can be seen by any user, and the other item(s) in the sidebar are visible. Is that particular type of block invisible if someone is not logged in as a user at all?

Thanks for any input!

Hello folks. Using this thread i would like to explain my idea for a custom module that will be used in an Intranet based enviroment. I have seen alot of development frameworks out there for creating such projects but after working with drupal for a couple of months i am certain i can develop modules with drupal itself.

I want to add, i have a decent knowledge of php and MySQL but a little understanding of the drupal core and how to use drupal hooks to develop what i need. Hope fully with a little guidence, i will be able to realise my goals.

So here goes:

I have played around with the CCK module and in most aspects it has been able to fulfil my needs but im looking for more. The main thing wrong with CCK is the way it creates the database structure. I want more control over this as outputting the data from the database is one of my interests.

I Have asked in #drupal about the complexity of my module and have been assured that it is a simple one to create so here goes.

I want to create a module with many node types that relate to each other in some form or another. With this structure of forms that relate to each other, i want to be able to query my tables and output a overview of this data in one table (think data warehouse). i Would also like to be able to view all the data via links in each submitted node to the other nodes related to it.