Drupal 6.x

Are there any modules that have been created to notify users that the site will be under-going maintenance in X amount of time etc? If not I will probably go ahead and create something like this I would just much rather notify users rather than just setting the site to off line for maintenance

What would be the proper way to create a page with, two blocks, on the left will display most recent blog post, and on the right will be an about me page.

after upgrade drupal 6 beta 2 to beta 3 I have errore for reply comment
by clicking on the relay coment or post new coment shown a snowy page .

this text report after upgrading :

Hi,

Please excuse my unfamiliarity with the correct terminology, but this is the first time I have come across Drupal and I'm learning but I haven't got the hang of it just yet.

I'm looking to use Drupal for a document management / intranet style of project and I'd like to be able to create a block / node that enables me to display, say, the 5 most recently updated items in a list in the right sidebar.

Stockholm/Sweden is looking for an experienced Drupal developer for a large project.

Job Description and Qualifications
• Experience building Drupal websites (link to portfolio ideal)
• Experience with Apache, PHP and MySQL required
• JavaScript, CSS and Web services experience ideal but not required (AJAX a plus)
• Source code control and distribution, understanding of CVS
• Knowledge of payment gateways and integrations of third party products

Me and the company I work at have been using drupal since the 4.6 release as a service to our clients and ever since we have been working to work out the kinks so that the user has a true feeling of a deticated server while truely its a multi-site drupal.

One of these little annoying things was the long urls pointing to the files map, themes map, etc. You get things like /sites/domain.com/www/files/images/file wich isn't the most beautiful. Now I have found my solution in apache's mod_rewrite, I have written the following: