Post installation

Hey all,

Well, after downloading Drupal a couple of weeks ago, I'm CLOSE to putting up my site (thanks to these GREAT forums). I have a question that I can't figure out.

Whenever I have a View display as a table, as soon as I add a field that's not text (such as a star rating or a jpeg image), the table does not show itself.

How can I show a View with a table (with sortable columns) in which there are images?

THANKS!!

I've put some modules into sites/all/modules/... and for each of those I get subsequently the below error

warning: is_dir(): Stat failed for sites/all/modules/buddylist (errno=13 - Permission denied) in /home/www/web1/html/includes/file.inc on line 644.

I've chmod all dirs to 777 but this still occurs and I could not found a similar entry here ... what am I doing wrong? (I am really new to Drupal so forgive me :-) )

thanks ... Danny

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