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The db feed I use stores dates as mm/dd/yyyy so I convert the date on the fly to yyyy-mm-dd and then it lets me sort using the new date I've created. The problem is when I try to filter dates, say I want only db entries with dates from the last 2 weeks. It won't let me filter those with the former invalid date column or with the new date column I've created. If I say where new_date_column > blah it says that the column doesn't exist. That's obviously a problem. Any idea how I can filter results? Do I need to use a post filter or something?

I can't understand why this would happen. Just moved my site and now when you click on "preview" when writing a blog, it shows the little preview box where it should be but there's no text besides the title of the blog. Submit works fine, though.

Some light, please...

I've got the Gallery module working on my site but the embedded gallery screens are scaled down so much that it's hard to read the text... Has anyone else experienced this? Any solutions?
Thanks,
James

Hey. How can i split up my story posts into categories? For example, id like to have one page show blog posts, and the other show news posts. As of now they are all jumbled together on my main page. So is there a way to make a seperate node to show all stories or content from a categroy that I could specify when I made the content? I'd assume this is a module to do this, I just cant find the right one.

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It strikes me that for many purposes, one needs to have results of a poll only after the poll is closed. Is this easy to do?

I'd really like to edit the forms so I can modify their layouts and style them more robustly with CSS. The way the forms are now is very limited as far as layout and styling goes. I don't really want to hack the base drupal files because when new versions come out it's just going to be a pain in the ass.

The forms module doesn't seem to offer any help (nor any documentation) in this regard. Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.