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Is there a way to show the users avatar thumbnail in a small size in the buddy list?

I am new to Drupal. I have been given a project to add comments to each article page of our website. We use Drupal on our website but not on many of the pages I need to add the form. We have used the CCK to create a new node type (content_new_forum) and the also to create a form. Using the form in its created location (folder in themes under the drupal install directory) works great. But if I try to include (using php require) the form in an article page I am running into issues where the forms will work for anonymous users but not for logged in users.

I am using OG 4.7 and my objective is to allow each group to have a relatively distinct looking homepage type in an effort to show sort of a splash screen for most groups.

Picture is worth 1000 words so
I want to be able to roughly reproduce this for the prairie group.
http://www.prairiefriends.org/

and a different look & navigation for a different group.

Hello,

Sorry for posting this in two places. It wasn't clear to me that "support" meant something different than "general questions about developing with Drupal."

http://www.cocomment.com/tools/integrate

Anyone feel like writing up a module for this? I wouldn't know where to start.

What would be the best way to achieve this scenario?

If a user has not logged in and clicks on a 'submit story' link, he should be taken to the registration page along with an appropriate message.

Right now I change the link redirect based on whether the user has logged on or not to either take him to the registration page or the submit story page. But when he is taken to the registration page, I also need to set a status message (drupal_set_message) stating he must be a registered member to post.