Post installation

Hi everyone,

I'm currently making a news aggregation website. I've looked/searched around the forum and did not see a particular topic on this, please forgive me if this has already been discussed.

I would like to make a news aggregation website that's similar to the following sites:

http://newsnow.co.uk/
http://www.christianheadlines.com/
http://www.gametab.com/
http://macsurfer.com/

The site would aggregate feeds from other sites without displaying any teaser, but only listing the titles, which will link back to the story on the original news site. I know some sites use zFeeder, but I'd like to try to achieve the same thing with Drupal.

I have experimented with the following combinations of modules, but none were exactly perfect:

Default Aggregator

With the default aggregator that came with Drupal, I could not find any easy way to "not" show teasers on the aggregation page. The only solution I found was to make blocks of aggregated contents, then place the block in a node, or use a module like panel to place the blocks on a page.

I've also tried to combine aggregator with Feed_node, and use Views to create a view that only display titles, but since Feed_node creates nodes out of the feed, the titles created by Views links to the nodes on my site, not the original site the story came from.

Leech or Feedparser

I am trying to get the flatforum.module/theme working with avatars (which should be there by default). Basically, $picture is outputting nothing, even though when i run this code
if (isset($picture)) print '$picture is isset'; else print '$picture is !isset';
I get $picture is isset.
Am I missing something? $picture is defined in user.module so it should work or at least output something.

Wondering what modules or php snipets where used for the frontpage. I was looking but not sure exactly.

1) They have a banner below the header, the three images/items below header...I don't get how to do that and I don't see a module doing that

2) How do they have the spotlight below the banner for a certain node/module that's in a greyish color

3) I read about how to hide the naviagation menu from anon. Was wondering if there is a better way then hacking the code.

Hello

I just installed ecommerce and when I try to add shippable and un-shipable products it goes to a "page can not be found" I can add apparel fine.

Thanks in advance for any comments.

Dany

Does Profile Privacy require buddy list?This post appears to say so http://drupal.org/node/93926.

I installed and it worked on a few fields, but I couldn't add more to it.