General discussion

Greetings,
I am interested in creating a new "business directory" website. If you know what a directory website is, you know all what I need eg. site memmbers just add urls to the directories with their slight descriptions, directories should be listed in a good manner as other directories etc etc.

The question is, which modules should I consider that will pave the way to what I need. I am known to drupal since 3-4 months and have developed many simple websites. But, now its time to elaborate the views. It would be great to have a help on this.

I'm trying to alter the Simplnews module and wow! it is beyond my PHP skills.

I'd like to disable the portion that sends a confirmation email to annoymous users. I'd prefer to just give them the link at the bottom if they'd like to unsuscribe.

I can't even tell how SimpleNews decides if a user has confirmed they want the newsletter. I don't see anything changing in the 3 tables provided in this module.

thank you for whatever direction you are able to give me!

I am making a menu and want it to have a specfic font. I know I can do it with images, but would prefer to do it with text. I was wondering if it is possible to put a font on a webserver and have the page rendered with that font or if the front has to be localized on the system that is viewing the website.

Thanks.

I'm a fairly experienced web designer/developer, but completely green to Drupal.

I've read numerous ways that publication/newspaper sites have been implemented, and I've installed Drupal 4.7 with a number of modules. However, I just can't seem to fully get my mind around how to implement the whole structure of the site. I'm hoping the community here can help me make sense of this so I can get up and running.

I need to setup Drupal to work with a monthly publication. The publication has 4 editions. Each edition covers a different geographic community and is published at different times throughout the month. Previous months need to be archived, and viewable in the same format as current editions - as if looking at the front page of a newspaper. Some articles will overlap between editions.

My vision of the setup...

Home page displays the title of the top 5 stories from each edition, plus links to the "home page" of each edition.

Once you click view an edition, the left menu contains several categories (Top News, Sports, Real Estate, Business, etc) each linking to the stories from that current edition.

Archived editions will be accessible from an archive link that leads to a page listing all archive editions.

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I've installed epublish, views, plus taxonomy, archive and some other modules. I get lost using the epublish module as new stories are assigned to categories using vocabulary/terms but I can't automate the assignment of the story to an epubish publication/edition. A bit confusing.

I am trying to enable the search box but the button that enables the search is disabled. So how can i enable the search.

Thanks

Basically right now my site says "www.*****.com/node/3" but i want it to say the year, then the month, then the day, then the post name. example; "www.*******.com/2006/11/01/test-post"

How can i do this?

Thanks