Installing Drupal

Hi,
I want to change the length so that it's only a few lines high.

www.dicelife.com is the site I'm trying to achieve this on. If you look it's storys are 12 lines, which may indicate that is the whole story, I would like only a 3 or 4 line teaser.

Any help much appreciated.

Roller

Is there a way to display a list of top users (most active) like the top nodes block? I can't see anything in the admin screens.

J

Hi Drupal experts,

I am a beginner in regard to Drupal and I hope my question is not too stupid: I set the length of trimmed posts in the node config to 200 characters. But my articles are printed in almost full length (>1000 chars) on the homepage of my drupal site. Does this depend on the theme (I am useing Marvin right now)? Any other things to consider?

Is there a chance to only publish the first paragraph on the homepage?

Thanks!
Michael

It is a little bit questions about system requirements of the Drupal. I open site on a virtual hosting with PHP, MySQL, mod_php, mod_rewrite. Drupal was downloaded from cvs. After news announcements number of visitors on my site increase to 1000-1500 hosts per day - and I had troubles :( Site running very slow and many users (around 30%) got "Error 500". My hoster says: your scripts work too long and exceeds time limits. Today I install devel.module and see next situation: queries from database works very long time (I think). For example query of index.php at night time:

 (time in ms)
173.331  SELECT data, created FROM cache WHERE cid = 'locale:ru'
90.231   SELECT uid, name, data FROM users

On localhost copy of this database shows:

7.331    SELECT data, created FROM cache WHERE cid = 'locale:ru'
3.391    SELECT uid, name, data FROM users

Yesterday at evening times was around 3000-4000 ms :( Most of time eats SELECT FROM cache - sometimes great than 1000 ms. I set cache off, but SELECT FROM cache still executes :\ ??



What system requirements for site on Drupal with such number of visitors (around 1000 hosts/day)? Can me help Zend optimizer (installed on my hosting, but off by default)? Any another tips on performance increasing appliable to virtual hosting? Very thanx.



Sorry, my not so correct English :)


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Axel

Today i`m testing drupal and have one admin account which is mine. But when i decided to create a new account it uid was number 5.
What`s up with accounts uids from 2 to 4? (when i cheked them in "admin" i recieve a message "no such user")
I tried to solve this problem with renewing of "users" table in database - but get frustrated.
Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

How do I make the block (hardcoded in somewhere) visibly only to registered users?

Sorry for being stupid if it is obvious, but I am new to making modules, themes etc.! :-)