Hi
I am a newbie to Drupal. I have been learning Drupal now for awhile. I have been in the process of learning, installed drupal, play with, reading books, watching video on internet, and listening to podcast. However, I can not seem to find what I am looking for. So I decision post several question start getting some help. I at this point I just need to be able to move forward with my building of the Drupal website.

Background on my setup. I have a development environment setup on my PC with Drupal 6 install on Ubuntu with multiple sites. A site I am starting with is a church website I have on the design done, now just need to build in Drupal. I have the following questions:

1.The site has several areas of information that need to be on multiple pages but need to be changed regular. I want it be able to change in one place and have all the locations where it is change. For example Worship Schedule changes basic on church seasonal, Easter, Christmas, etc. it will be on home page, worship page, etc. How is the best way to do this? I was thinking a custom block, but can you but it on multiple pages?

2.I want to include several web feeds for ELCA web feed options, like the Today's Bible Verse. The code I get is a javascript, calling an asp page. I can not get it to work. I created a custom block, copy the code into it, set input format to Full HTML. Nothing happens, just show the code. Even try input format as PHP, same thing. Create custom input format with no restriction, still no luck.

Here the code

<script language="JavaScript1.2" TYPE="text/javascript" src="http://www.elca.org/scriptlib/co/feeds/Verse_Feed/tbrBibleVerse.asp?Option=1"></script>

3.I am planning on using CCK, but like found resource that goes in depth more to understanding and using for building general site (church) vs blog/forum sites?

Thank you,

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choster’s picture

Hi pamreed,

1. If you've edited a block before, surely you've seen the section where you can specify its display options. :) Consider using the views module to create blocks, as then you can keep the information in a node where it is searchable and accessible to privileged non-administrators for editing, among other benefits.

2. When you view the rendered source, do you see the other scripts called by the versefeed script? Can you get the verses to display in a static page on your server? Do you see any Javascript errors? That versefeed script, incidentally, relies on document.write which is not supposed to work with XHTML (in which most Drupal themes are now written), even though the browsers usually allow it.

By the way, please use specific subject lines. Pretty much everyone posting in this forum is here because they "Need Drupal Help" :).

There is a Drupal group for church webmasters; see http://groups.drupal.org/churches .