SUU Advanced Web Design

okay guys-

i'm stuck. help me out here.

i go to "content types". i create a new content type for the text block that i need to appear on the homepage.

is it here that i can define what kind of content this is? text, img, etc? cause i can't. i have the options of 'name' , 'type' (computer-readable name), 'description' & submission, workflow, and comment settings.

anyway, next step i go to create content and under my new text content i can put in a title and body text and set comment preferences. save it.

then what? cause it suddenly shows up on all my pages.

so i go to views, and check through the settings there. they're throwing an error under my fields settings.

"Error: handler for node_data_field_main_image > field_main_image_fid doesn't exist!"

thats great, but i can't change it, and it won't let me add a new field (aka my frontpage text content i added). it doesnt show up in my list of stuff to add.

i'm FRUSTRATED! any ideas???