Module development and code questions

While weblinks are treated as nodes inside the drupal they are displayed not like all other nodes (like story, filestore or blog entry). And think it's not right. I wanted to modify the module by myself but my poor knowledge of PHP prevented me from succeeding.
All that i figured out is that in this module a theme_weblink_node_short function is used to display weblinks in a nodes-list. In all other modules as far as i understood no such "special" functions are used.

I'm pretty new to Drupal, so forgive me if this is an RTFM.

I have added an RSS feed to my Drupal instance. I can update the items just fine by hand. I can't seem to find anything explaining what I need to do in order to get it to update automatically.

I updated the feed to set the update interval to 15 minutes, but it doesn't update.

cron.php is in place and running as root. Right now it's set to run every hour, but according to the RSS page my feed hasn't updated for 1 hour 54 minutes.

What am the deal?

Hello All:

This is to announce the release of a new module, Scripture Filter. It creates links from Bible book references, e.g. John 3:16. The links point can point to one of 3 locations: biblegateway.org, the ESV online bible or the NET bible. The default is biblegateway, but you can change that by using John 3:16 (ESV). The links will open in a seperate window. If there are any problems, let me know at david@dawninglight.net.

Hi all,

I am new to Drupal having come across from an ezPublish background. I have been having a look at the user profile module and have a few questions that I would like to ask all of you knowledgeable veterans.
Say I have three taxonomies:
1. Location that contains a hierarchical list of countries and regions
2. Gender (male & female)
3. Favourite foods.

Hello,
I have noticed that on longer stories it automatiaclly breaks to another page (from the homepage). I would like to change the amount (of charchters?!?) required until it breaks. Take it easy on me, i'm very new to this and it seems quite a good CMS.

I have used search, but i really haven't found anything.

Thanks in advance,
James

Hello! I'd really like to come up with a module that would publish a "summary" node every week. This would be similar to what comes up every Sunday at http://www.gizmodo.com (as well as other sites), where the node is just a list of dated links to all nodes that were published during the previous week. Ideally, this would be an automated process. Has anybody done anything along these lines and/or could help point me in the right direction? Any guidance you can offer would be most welcome.

Thanks in advance!