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Effective ways to find stories on sites with tons of articles

We're creating a site which will be publishing hundreds of blog. Our front page will be displaying about 20 blog entries, updated whenever a new blog entry comes in.

My question is: When you run a site that is generating more articles per day than you have room for on the front page, what are good techniques/practices/usability to let users of the site find these articles.

User Login Problems

I have a user complaining that she isn't able to log in.
In my watchdog I can see the login attempts and it says that the user logged in sucessfully, but when she tries to do anything on my site it tells her to log in.
I am puzzled about this, as everything works for me. She told me she tried Firefox and IE.
I am wondering if this could be a firewall / cookie / Browser Configuration ... issue.

What could I be looking for?

Error in my log i can't quite pinpoint

I receive this message in my log:

"Can't create/write to file '/private/var/tmp/#sql_182_0.MYI' (Errcode: 28) query: SELECT DISTINCT(p.perm) FROM role r INNER JOIN permission p ON p.rid = r.rid INNER JOIN users_roles ur ON ur.rid = r.rid WHERE ur.uid = 0 in /Library/WebServer/site/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 66."

Cannot click on links in Modules page

Since special to hide text javascript was added to the Module and contact page, I cannot click on links. I am using IE 6.0.2800.1106 on Windows 2000 Professional

Anyone else have this probem ? I am forced to use Mozilla to browse Drupal now.

Thanks

Marcel
http://01wholesale.com
http://businessletters.com

Page Creation problem

When i create a page through content>>create content>>page it will save all the content in database but no HTML file is displayed in my folder

category module broke my site; dba not working; backup noderevisions

After hearing someone else using the new category module successfully (56137), I decided to try it out. I've been looking everywhere for how to add page up and page down links to cck, but haven't figured it out. I was planning to use category for those links and other great stuff.

I thought I followed the tutorial on jaza's site. At first, I noticed the problem that my new pages created didn't have page up and page down links. Then today I noticed 90% of the content is missing. Titles are there, but content is gone. I tried to disable category but then my site would not even work. I installed the taxonomy wrapper and book wrapper, but had the same result. But fortunately, now I could disable the category suite and have my content back finally.
www.drupalecommerce.com

I had not backed up the site because I was using dba for 4.6 and the 4.7 version does not have a "select all" box working correctly. (This was reported to the maintainer earlier.) I tried mysqldump but couldn't work with the text in my text editor (five minutes to do one command).

I waded through the mysql database in phpmyadmin looking for the table that has all the content that's not in comments. Finally I found it, not in node, not in book, ..., ..., in noderevisions table. I backed up that single table using the dba module.

I wrote this post so that others can avoid these pitfalls. For those who don't know where most of your content is, back up the noderevisions table and the comments table.

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