Module development and code questions

I want to make a module that allows the user to selcct the background image of a node.

This will by done by selecting the image from one in image.module (maybe using image assist - or something like that) and then write it out to a style tag when the node is viewed.

I have never written a module before (apart from the getting started thing in the handbook) so can anyone give me some ideas of how to go about it? I was looking at nodewords to see if I could hack it about a bit, but it's a bit too complex for my needs.

Hello

I want to change the

Not that I've been able to find anything like this for any other site or message board software, but I'd really be interested in someday applying a dice roller to one of my sites, for the purpose of play-by-post roleplaying and such. If I'm missing something notable, could someone point it out to me? (..not limited to drupal.. I haven't been able to find a dice roller for anything!.. even something as common as phpbb..) If I knew how to go about it, I'd build it myself.. but I still have my hands slightly full getting used to customizing themes. For someone that is fully capable of envisioning and for that matter executing such a task, at very least (if you don't want to just go ahead and make it for me.. :D ) could you give me an idea of a difficulty level?

Some features I had imagined it could have..
_{~simple XdY format.. probably a string of text in brackets .. [roll=2d4]
~multiple dice in one roll .. [roll=1d4,2d6,8d100]
~have some sort a history table in the database or something? the rolls would be numbered in sequence.. perhaps a page could display the numbers, each of these numbers could then be linked to the article or post in which they were rolled.}

My followup question basically being, would the history feature be the downfall of an attempt at such a project? I MIGHT have a person or two to beg to do this for me, but I have to be able to convince them that it's not a waste of time first. ;)

Hi guys

I been using drupal for a while now but have put off the whole process of looking at module development but my time has some

I going to start with something easy mh easy famous last words, What I was thinking of was coding a module that give the user the ability of displaying the <

i want to setup a site similar to wordpress.com
where users can sign up and get an account and will have a website like this:
http://username.mydomainname.com

is there any module exist for this?
how can this made possible?
anyone willing to setup something like this?

tia
rex

I just recently found Drupal while looking for a CMS that could integrate with Gallery. I've got that up and working on my site and am very happy with it. The only additional thing I want to provide to people on the site is the ability to access their email. I saw that their is a SquirrelMail module, but I really prefer Horde IMP for webmail. I saw a post from a while back about someone writing a module to integrate Horde but the site referenced didn't have any information about the module. I'm wondering if someone is still working on a module like this and what the status is.