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Drupal 5.0 hacked(not sure if i am using the right word here)

Hi, i decided i will try out the new Drupal release on my personal blog, www.sham-inc.com I set it up a few days ago, and today i noticed i am not able to login to my site, and all the variables(Logo, slogan, footer, mission) are set to "This website will be closed soon"

I can easily just delete it all and set it up afresh, but if somebody can help me understand the whole thing here, it will be nice. The site was set to be in offline mode after everything was deleted.

Newbie cant find a place to report bugs

I am just setting up D.
I have found an obvious problem that many people must see.
But I see no forum category for BUG reports, so I have chosen this one.

1 I suggest an obvious category called bug reports. If this is it, the name is misleading.

2 Here is the bug: In FF 2.0, a back click loses the scroll position, and you are put back at the top which is very annoying. This does not happen in IE 7 nor in any other site in FF. So it must be a Drupal-FF problem.

Garland color / link issues

I did not see a specific place for Garland discussions, so I hope this is the right place.

First, it is AWESOME. These are detailed issues here, but I know everyone wants to get issues like this right.

A few things about color and links that I think could cause usability problems.

1. Visited and unvisited links always have the same color / decoration. Should we have 2 settings for link color? I know, you can hack the .css - I just did it in 5 seconds, it was not that hard. But I am not comfortable with the built-in assumption.

2. Links are not underlined. Again, easy to hack. Should it be a setting?

3. There is a single link color but it has to work on 3 different backgrounds (center space / usually white, left/right sidebars and breadcrumb area/usually the darkest of the 3). It will be very difficult to get the CONTRAST right to have a single link color work well on all 3 backgrounds. For example, in the Belgian Chocolate setting, the link contrast is fine for center and left/right but not good at all for the breadcrumb. I think the breacrumb will be unreadable for some users - the link and its background do not have enough contrast.

Not sure if the breadcrumb needs it own link color or what.

We cannot prevent people from making unusable instances of Garland, but we should also not make it unusable out of the box.

Even with these issues, I would not automatically add in loads of more Garland color settings - the Garland set up has to be usable too. Perhaps the best way is to leave as is and then add some guidance on how to hack the CSS that results.

Adminster -> User Management -> Add User : Password

I would like to see a checkbox for the system to create the password using the same methods the registration system uses. If creating more than one user the administrator will typlically use a ``default'' password and expect the user to change that password. The system doesn't even force the change of the password when the administrator creates the user. This is a small security hole in the great Drupal user authentication system.

Earnie
http://for-my-kids.com

Log details paging buttons

It would be good on the log details page to have prev/next paging buttons. I currently have to use the browser back button or modify the URI.

Earnie
http://for-my-kids.com

Taxonomy_dhtml does not collapse/expand

Have just tried the taxonomy_dhtml menu, not bad at all ! it is exactly what I wanted, exept that in my block, the menu don't collapse/expand. I can only do that when i use the "categories". Nothing to expand in the blocks.

Is there a way to do that ? did'nt find any clue wiyh my research.
Thanks

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