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Using book for content ?

OK we will shortly be adding lots of content on site and these will be in the form of Sections with subsections.

The content will be submitted by a variety of authorized authors so would books fit my needs or are there better modules for this ?

I like the easy way an author can create, edit and delete a page within the book.

Also is there any way, maybe through theming, to show the author of a book page ? I'd like to give credit where its due.

thumbshots & php from thumbshots.org

Drupal 4.6x

I was over on google with firefox and noticed my browser was trying to pull thumbshots for the web page from thumbshots.org

So, what the heck, I went to see what was up.

It seems they have a free service to generate thumbshots of your website. A few simple requests and rules, but nothing really big.

They give the 1st example for static pages. (LINK being the main var)

Drupal and Adsense

Is there a way to add Adsense into the main content area (not just above or below articles). Having adsense (or other affilitate programs) show up inline with posts. An example:

########### Post starts and wraps around Ad
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ADVERTISMENT#
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Post continues

How can I get notification of new releases?

I just checked the drupal site for the first time in a couple of months and am amazed to find that an entire new version has been released (as well as a security release for 3.6) with nothing being sent out to the newsletter list I subscribed too, I thought for this purpous. I'm hosting a drupal site on a shared server for a small volunteer organisation as a favour, and I don't have time to routinely check drupal.org - but I need to know if a new release has come out so I can upgrade in case of security issues.

bloated report of the number of reads, e.g. 18446744073709551583

After just a few admin clicks on an item , whether the content is a banner, a blog or page i get a bloated report of the number of reads, e.g. 18446744073709551583 reads! Any ides?

New Posts link

When clicking on the X new posts link, if the new posts are on a second page, it just goes to the top of the first page. Is there anyway to make Drupal realise this and make it have link to the appropriate page instead?
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R McCue
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