Installing Drupal

Hi guys,

I'm evaluating Drupal for use in an intranet, and so far it's met all my feature requirements, with the exception of it's publishing features (I think).

What I want is for an editor to be able to create a story and set the date for it to go live (so don't go live straight away after it's been approved). I also want to define a way to easily set expiry dates for stories.

For example, a monthly story goes live on X and gets archived at the end of that month, wheras a weekly story only is up for that week. Something flexible and generic.

I am trying to figure out how to create the sidebar that you see here to the right. The one that shows Log in, Forum topics(Active, New), Who's online? Is this a module, or do I not have something configured properly?

thanks for the help. I really like this app !!!

On my blog at www.networkdigital.net the very first time someone loads my page it shows nothing but the logo, and the top and bottom bars of links. If you refresh, all the blocks show up. note: this is before even logging in.

Probably a simple hack -- let's allow users to post a poll attached to each of their blog entries if they so desire!

I'd like to restrict anonymous users from viewing the user info of registered users. Under "user management" -> "user permissions" I've turned off "access userlist" for anonymous users, but user info is still viewable for anonymous users.

Should I still be able to view user info with "access userlist" off?

Thanks

After installing the latest version on my development system all I see is a blank page. No logo, no sidebox, no nothing. I'm running apache 1.3.27 w/ php 4.3 on windows 2000. Anyone have a clue what may be going wrong?