Post installation

is it possible to switch the order of the links on teasers so that "read more" comes before "add new comment", and if so, how?

A known bug in Drupal 4.4.1 can cause UTF-8 issues on some server configurations. A fix has been applied to CVS, so this will make it into 4.4.2/4.5.

Several people have posted a thread asking about it, so if you are experiencing this issue, you can apply this patch to fix it for now.

I am running a new Drupal site (thanks, Drupal team, for this wonderful software!), and have a question about "best practices".

I'd like to serve certain important pages statically, from short, memorable URLs. For example:

http://www.mydrupalsite.org/faq.html
http://www.mydrupalsite.org/mission.html

My plan is that these pages would be actual HTML files stored at the top level of the Drupal tree -- that is, *not* as nodes in the Drupal database.

Does anyone have any advice for or against this practice?

The reason to do it this way is mainly so human beings can *very* easily remember these URLs (I want people to be able to transmit them from memory when necessary), and also so that these prominent & commonly-requested pages are served statically by Apache (our server is not particularly fast). And it's easier for us to edit & keep these pages up-to-date; they tend to have more prose than other parts of the site, and it's preferable to work on them in a real editor. We have the entire Drupal tree under version control (Subversion), so having these pages be files works out well.

The disadvantages I can see are that hese pages will not automatically inherit the site style and surrounding links (but that's okay, we can pretty easily do the right CSS magic, and put a link back to the home page), and their content will not automatically be included in site searches.

Very New to this. Have created a New Users Start Here page and would like a link to it to appear under Navigation. Probably easy. Can anyone point the way please?

WHOIAM: I'm not a programmer and I don't know english well. Keep in mind this if you go on ;)

THE SCENARIO: I want to make a multilanguage site: english, french and italian so I'm trying to install the i18n module but without complete success. This is what I've done till now, I hope someone can help me :)

I'd like to be able to display a drop down menu for the monthly archives on the main page. That is, right underneath the calendar there would be a drop down menu that users could select a specific month instead of going to the actual archives page. I did this at my current site, which uses MT (I'm migrating to Drupal). I'd like to know if I could do a similar thing in Drupal.