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Feature that would be helpful

I would like to have the ability to check a box, when creating content as an administrator, that would keep the content from showing up in the "recent posts" list, etc.

i.e. I am creating a "thank you" page that users are directed to after they make a donation. I don't want that page to be listed in the "recent posts" list because it is just a standard page on my site, not really content.

Also, the ability to turn off the display of the "Submitted by... on..." information on a per-content piece basis would be nice, too.

Drupal the resource hog

This simple page (displaying an image in a gallery and a menu)

http://www.aguntherphotography.com/oregon/covered_bridges/photos/photo_1...

searching for a searchable search

This site needs a way to "search from here". That is, search only within forums, or within modules, or within documentation etc.

Also, some way to search phrases better. From what i can tell, searching for "email config" returns any page with either term, more like 'email OR config' would do. (by the same token, searching for 'email AND config' returns what appears to be 'email OR and OR config'. SOmetimes you get lucky, but this search is not terribly useful at all -- especially on a big site like drupal.org.

/gripe

TabIndex and Title attributes

Hi,

I have marked this for Drupal 4.5 or older and 4.6, but this should probably hold for Drupal 4.7 as well, as I haven't noticed any discussions about this yet, to indicate that this is indeed being worked on. Both of these are serious usability issues that need attention, and I will do the grunt work if someone else can do the decision work and get some implementation ideas for it, as I am not a good enough coder to figure that out :-)

TabIndex is very important for blind people to use the Internet. I have noticed this to a great extend in my website created for a blind person at www.eagleeyes.co.za, which is a Drupal based site. It is, however, not functioning as required with Tab Indices as I would have to patch the whole Drupal distro to do this. My feeling is that EACH AND EVERY link should have a tabindex attribute added, even those generated by modules. The how of it all didn't exactly go through my head yet as this is a complicated process, especially to keep track of the indices allocated to each and every link.

The second important thing that has been discussed before is the use of title attributes for tooltips. There are some who say that not every link should have a title attribute, and those who dislike any tooltips, and then there are those who feel that a title attribute is needed with EVERY link. I am of the latter group, because a lot of screen readers make use of the title tags to read the text of a link. I also make use of this at www.eagleeyes.co.za (see the navigation bar). I believe it is imperative that we start a discussion about this, and work out a strategy for implementing such a wide change in Drupal.

Please make http://drupal.org/files/projects/ viewable

Please make http://drupal.org/files/projects/ viewable directly so we can download all the themes and modules w/o having to write a script to do so.

What should I put on the front page?

I'm doing the website for the camera club I'm in. I've been dabbling in web design for some time and tend to keep fiddling and changing my mind on how I want to do things. One thing I keep changing my mind on is the front page. So I'm looking for other opinions. :)

There's a few ways I can see going:

1) Use frontpage.module and make a fancy front page. I don't really care for splash pages, though.
2) Put actual content on the front page. I prefer this method but then I wonder what to put?

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