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What would be the best way to fulfill these blog requirements using Drupal?

1. All blogs should be reachable through a (top) blogs page, but the top page should only display content from site owner's designated authors.

2. Users can create their own blogs on site, an administrator or moderator is able to review users' blogs and 'elevate' user blog entries to the top blog page.

3. There should be a way to warn of and eliminate antisocial users or vandals.

In most forum software, the thread list has a pager next to it. For example, in the thread list you'll see something like this:

My Thread 1, 2, 3

Where 1, 2, and 3 are links to pages of that thread. Is there a way to accomplish this in Drupal? I've spent all afternoon poking around but no luck (yet.)

Also: I'd also like a way for the pagers inside a thread to appear at both the TOP and bottom of the page, not just the bottom. I've seen Drupal sites do this, and I'd like to know the secret.

I'm setting up a site using chameleon theme and 4.6

I need the logo to fit snug in the upper left corner. Where do I edit that margin?

You can see this at http://www.shelbylandscaping.com There is also a gray border at the top I would like to lose.

I'm trying a gradual migration to drupal at that site.

Ahh! I've been trying to figure this out all day, with both the aggregator and aggregator2 module. I love the way aggregator works (besides not being able to read atom feeds..) but I don't want it to display the whole blog. It doesn't seem possible. So I went to aggregator2, but that's just even more confusing and creates nodes for each feed item but I can't figure out how to make a "main" page similar to www.yousite.com/aggregator.

I can be flexible. I just need to export some story content items to one of the above formats. How do I do that? Thanks.

I'm not sure how to ask this question. Sorry in advance if I bumble my way along. When one contributes to the forums, the text ends up in the forum in the correct place. Users can find the contribution by going to forums/forumName. So I'm trying to create various areas on the web site. For example, I created a flexinode called, Municipal Directory. Now there's a content type called Municipal Directory. When I create an entry, and then choose not to display it on the front page, the entry is basically lost to site visitors.