Module development and code questions

I'm using Drupal to build a site, and one of the requirements is that it should be easy to link to other people’s profiles (I've added a whole bunch of fields to the profile module so you get a mini biography about the person and their role in the organisation).

Currently to link to a person you need user/view/ what I'd like to do is /user/view/.

What’s the easiest way to achieve this? URL Aliasing only seems to work on nodes.

TIA.

P.

OK folks. For all of us who have had problems with image.module not creating thumbnails with ImageMagick on Windows. I have found the problem and it has nothing to do with the module itself.
The problem is twofold. 1) You must run ImageMagick from its installed directory without changing the name of the directory. It seems that when ImageMagick runs it expects it's config file to live in a prescribed place (c:\Progra~1\ImageMagick-5.5.7-Q8\cofic/etc..."). Maybe there's a setting in a file that could be changed but I can't find it.

I'm about to commission the development of a step-by-step instructions module. The idea is to make it easy for authors to create complete step-by-step guides including a list of materials, and supporting photographs.

You can view my specs at http://www.community-publishing.net/files/step-by-step.pdf

The finished module will be added to contrib, If you think you might want to use this module, please weigh in here. The more thought we put in at this stage the better the end result.

I have been playing around with google Image module and the rating module. I want to use the Image module to create an Image Gallery (which is easy), but then I want to enable voting on the Image modes.

Is is possible, easily? The Gallery module that already exists, I don't like that, infact, I couldn't make it work.

I already have coppermine gallery running on my website (Hotometer.com) on top of PHPNuke, but I want to port to Drupal which seems much more extensible for future planning.

Hello All,

I would love to see a module to support the Universal PHP Authentication Replication System. This would allow sites to maintain user accounts between applications such as Phorum, phpBB, WebCalendar, PostNuke, Xaraya, Drupal and basically any system that has a user account.

This would solve the problem of forcing users to create an account for each of these applications running on a single site.

I am trying to list the latest posts on my frontpage, but I want to post them seperately for every term, so this is what i came up with: