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As part of an extensive upgrade of this site, I am planning on converting it to run on Civicspace (at present it is mostly static pages that appear to have been created in Dreamweaver). I want the actual visual appearrance of the site to remain similar to how the site looks now.
At the moment there are two related aspects which I am unsure how to best approach.
Menus At present the hierarchical menu (you need to go onto a page other than the front page to see it properly) is in different colours for each category. At present the only way I can see to create this is by hard-coding the whole thing - essentially taking it across in the same forward as it is at the moment & dropping it into the site. This doesn't seem a particularly friendly way of doing it though & will make future updates to the site complex. This lead on to my other question:
Pages inheriting colours from menus If you go to any sub pages on the site, you will see that the page inherits the colour from the menu which it originates - or a variant of that colour. At present I am planning on creating the pages as a flexinode - with fields for the top quote, top image, side image(s) & body text. Possibly I could set the colour in this way as well, but I am wondering if there is any easy way that they could inherit their colour from the menu or from the page above them in the hierarchy.

All of a sudden any new posts on my front page started to take up the right-hand column as well and push down the blocks which belong there. The older posts don't display this behaviour. Take a look at the site (www.vieuxtemps.nl) and you'll see what I mean.

What have I done wrong? What can I do about it? I'm really at a loss here.
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Peter van Dorp

Hi there - first post!

I have a website where folks can track projects - for each project, I want there to be an OG group that is created simultaneously with the same name as the project for access control.

Any ideas on how to implement the creation of multiple content types simultaneously?

Hi all! :)

I'm new to Drupal, so I still have a somewhat vague idea of what I can do with this stuff. I know PHP, SQL, and HTML pretty well, but I was looking for a better and more effecient way of managing and adding content to my web site and Drupal seems like a great choice.

I have the impression that a CMS is a little like LaTeX (I know that sounds farfetched!) in that you get to focus much more on the content, and leave the layout to the underlying system.

Which module(s) do I need to install, if I want to restrict individual pages, stories, or forums to specific groups of users? For example, I have 3 groups of user (A, B, and C), and I'd like forum A, page A and story A to be accessible only by group A; forum B, page B and story B to be accessible only by group B etc. And none of these able to be accessed by anon users (i.e. the public).

I tried to use the Drutex module but I do not seem to be able to render any LaTeX equations. I was assuming that I should simply enclose them in <equation> tags, but of course a manual of some sort would be nice. I did enable the module and added configurations to the input formats, but still nothing. Does anyone know how to get Drutex working?