<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Oct 19, 2006, at 6:19 PM, Mohammed Al-shar' wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">lora,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">thank you.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">but don't you think that the views module isn't easy at all? I tried it but couldn't do anything with it. I saw it as being very difficult. is there some book that explains it more? I know it's powerful.</FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Try taking an existing view, and clicking "clone." That way the obvious stuff is already filled in. Things to remember:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1) You need a page if you want people to see all your sticky posts.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>2) You need a block, obviously.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>3) You will want to have filters. Musts would be node is sticky, node is published. You can add taxonomy, author, other conditions as you like. Try it out, and see what happens.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>4) You probably don't need to deal with arguments.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hope this helps.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Best,</DIV><DIV>Laura</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>