Installing Drupal

I was wondering what would be better, personally I thought that the forums look a bit bland for features, ie - post count etc and was wondering which other people would recomend?

My site uses Drupal, but I have never run a forum before so I amn't sure what to expect really. Maybe it would be better if I used the Drupal Forum until my site got started or something?

Any help greatly needed.

I have no any settings for access to devel.module. By default this is visible to all users or admin only?

Hi all,
Having a problem on www.dicelife.com with the alignment of blocks, they all sit on left even though I have set some to sit on right and also logo has gone and site looks plain compared to before I played with all the settings.

Many thanks for any help,

Lee

hello,

i'm working on drupal to prepare a website for a literature magazine. i have a few questions to ask:

1. we add poems, but as you know some line of poems has many spaces in front of them. in our old page we used to use this functions for making spaces:

function forma_poem($cumle)
{
// $cumle=str_replace("\t","   ",str_replace(" "," ",$cumle));
$cumle=str_replace("\n","
",$cumle);
$cumle=wordwrap($cumle);
$cumle=str_replace(" "," ",$cumle);
$cumle=str_replace("img src","img src",$cumle);
$cumle=str_replace("\t","   ",$cumle);
// $cumle=wordwrap($cumle,10);
return $cumle;
}

function forma_story($cumle)
{
$cumle=str_replace(" ","     ",$cumle);
$cumle=str_replace("\n","
",$cumle);
$cumle=str_replace(" ","     ",$cumle);
return $cumle;
}

I can add this &nbsp instead of tabs and spaces but most of our users don't know html. how can i use this function for nodes? is it related with filters? and also is there a chance to add a checkbox while writing a node to use this function/filter? i need this function in only a few nodes.

2. when i add a book node, if i don't use html on it, it makes auto-breaks. but if i use any tags i must add < br / > to all node. is it possible for auto-breaks in html too? and if you see all node (show more) line breaks can be see if you don't use text, but in summery it doesn't uses auto-breaks. is this things enabled in themes?

Is there an easy way to convert a comment to a forum or story node - other than creating a new node and copying the information in?

I'm trying to get drupal up and running, but am having problems logging in for the first time. I keep getting the message 'You are not authorized to access this page.' when I go to my newly installed drupal site and when I click on any link.

I'm not overly experienced in php(okay, I've never programmed in php), but I think that I've traced the issue back to the modules/user.module file, specifically the user_access subroutine. It looks like the page is trying to log in as 'anonymous user', but since the role and permissions tables are empty, false is being returned by strstr().