Drupal 4.7.x

Hello there.

I would like to know about your experiences with PHPlist for handling newsletters of your drupal sites. I've been searching forums for some time now, but some questions still remain.

Like:

It seems it can be easily integrated with Drupal via massmailer? How stable and efficient this really is?

In it's site, PHPlist claims that it can handle very big databases. Is this for real? In my site, we have various newsletters, and some of them have more than 30thou subscribers. Will it handle this ok?

Anonymous users can subscribe?

Hellon, I encounter the following issue: I installed the activesigns theme, and selected it as default for entire website. Then, I decided to choose other themes as default. If I am logged in as Admin, I can see the theme I chose as default. However, if i am logged out, i see the the activesigns theme, no matter what i select as default.
I tried to delete the activesigns theme, but drupal still tries to find it in index php. It is like the theme ignores my selections as default.
This is quite troublesome, could someone please help??
Thank you in advance.

html layers, eg top:0px; left:30px etc. : how does this work in drupal ? what concerns me is that they seem to take absolute co-ordinates in the theme , rather than working inside the centre column , so i assume they might not display correctly in all browsers ?

I've been working with Upstream Asia, a PR and marketing company as their Digital Marketing Manager for over a year now and have built many, many sites for them using Drupal (a mix of 4.7 and 5.x) and thought it was about time I showcase a few of those.

I'm searching for a solution for my problem. I want to filter a list of blogposts and exclude posts based on the categories.

For example, I don't want to see posts containing the 'video' category. I tried the Taxonomy category browser, but it only enables me to create a list containing 'video'. So when a certain post is tagged 'video' and 'special', the Taxonomy category browser shows the post when I browse 'special'. It isn't an option to remove the 'special' tag from the post.

The Bounty:

Amount: $30 via PayPal, unless other arrangements are made.

Task: A short, numerated, tutorial instructing a user how to migrate an existing Drupal database from a server running MySQL 4.0 (Latin1 charset) to a server running MySQL 4.1 (UTF8).

Due Date: Friday, November 16th 2007 (I may be able to give 24 more hours).

Pretty easy $30--and it would be a great assistance to many Drupal site owners and be a great addition to the Drupal Handbook.

Interested? Here are some more specifics.

I am offering a small bounty ($30) to anyone who will write a tutorial for the Drupal Handbook in regards to the proper way to migrate an existing Drupal website (4.7.x and 5.x) from a server running MySQL 4.0 to a server running MySQL 4.1.

The Drupal CMS has two database types (for 4.7) for MySQL when starting a new site: 4.0 and 4.1. One of the major differences is that MySQL 4.0 uses Latin1 for the character set while MySQL 4.1 uses UTF8.

Dumping a Drupal site from a server running MySQL 4.0 and repopulating the database on a server running MySQL 4.1 results in garbled text and (from what I hear) query issues due to incorrect and conflicting collation table data.