Post installation

I've installed Drupal & CivicSpace, added every type of content, been through hours of docs on node, but I don't understand the basic markup of Drupal.

Suppose I had 15 forums and I want to display a side panel with 15 links (one unselectable) next to the forum that is displayed, to multiplex between the forums. How would I add a panel to the forum display? Or is that the wrong paradigm and I need to be thinking in terms of manipulating nodes? If so, how do you display different kinds of nodes on a page layout?

Is there any way to make it so that the recent comments on the comment module doesn't show multiple comments from the same node, eg, at the moment i've reduced it to just showing 5 comments, and the other day 4 of them were different comments in the same topic!

Any ideas anyone??

Hi,
is there any way / module to hide the links from the directory i'm creating using drupal ?

With each node I have a field "url", but when user click on it, I would prefer that a redirect mechanism used to hide url, and count clicks.

Also, is there a module to count and display page views ? for each node ?

Thanks,
Brakkar

I've added the bookmark module to my site. The bookmark block appears in the side menu, preceded by "Username's Bookmarks." I think it's redundant for this block to have a title, and would like to remove it.

I've managed to edit a line in the bookmarks.module to remove it, but then I get an empty < h2 class="title" >< /h2 > at the top of the block. Is there a way I can do away with those entirely?

It took me ages to find the answer to how to have clean URLs. I use Mac OS X 10.3 Server, but did not think to look here http://drupal.org/node/5338 where I would have found the answer, as I did not think clean urls had anything to do with the operating system. In Mac servers, all site act as virtual hosts with their own httpd files. In each of these you have to change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All. (I had further trouble with permission - Xray didn't do it for me - but that is a different matter).

Hello again, friends !

May be someone knows about standard way to change e-mail format from plain text to html ?

Or the only way is to hack original codes to make something like that:

mail ($email, $subject, $memo, "From: $our_email\r\nContent-Type: text/html");

Many tanks in advance !