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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:11 PM, prothero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:prothero@geol.ucsb.edu">prothero@geol.ucsb.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Ursula:<div>FYI, I tried Drupal 7 (also as a new user) and found it not ready for newbies to use. Many of the themes and modules have not been updated yet, and there is only one book yet, and the platform is still changing. The online docs were useful, but left gaps that caused me to waste a lot of time. So, I went with version 6 and figured to upgrade when 7 was formally released. It's hard enough getting to know Drupal without dealing with bugs too.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The best,</div><div>Bill</div><div><br><div> <span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
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<font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:12px">William A. Prothero</span></span></span></font></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-size:12px"><a href="http://earthednet.org/" target="_blank">http://earthednet.org/</a></span></p><br></span></span></span></span><br></div></span></div></span> </div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div>
<div>On Dec 3, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Ursula Pieper wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Carl,<br><br>Thanks, I will do that next time (yes, a screenshot would have been<br>much more meaningful).<br>The views module got updated today. After I installed the update, the<br>
problem went away.<br><br>Ursula<br><br>On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Carl Wiedemann <<a href="mailto:carl.wiedemann@gmail.com" target="_blank">carl.wiedemann@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I don't know the answer to your question, but it is difficult to determine<br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">what you are asking. To facilitate the most useful help, please<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">use <a href="http://pastebin.com/" target="_blank">http://pastebin.com/</a> for pasting code and <a href="http://imagebin.org/" target="_blank">http://imagebin.org/</a> or Skitch<br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">for posting screenshots. Also turn off devel_themer module so that your<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">markup is clean -- it creates all of those span tags.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
That documentation page you linked is from August of this year. It could be<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">stale information.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Ursula Pieper <<a href="mailto:dramamezzo@gmail.com" target="_blank">dramamezzo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I am relatively new to drupal, and this is the first time I am trying<br></blockquote>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">to setup a forum.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I am using the drupal 7 release from Dec 1st, and I followed the forum<br>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">setup documentation (<a href="http://drupal.org/node/796472" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/node/796472</a>).<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">My issue is:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">In the list of forum topics, the topic list is not displayed properly.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">This is how it looks like:<br>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">
<span thmr="thmr_62"><a href="/druptest/testtopic">&lt;span<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">thmr=&quot;thmr_32&quot;&gt;&lt;a<br>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">href=&quot;/druptest/testtopic&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;span<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">thmr=&amp;quot;thmr_7&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a<br>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">href=&amp;quot;/druptest/testtopic&amp;quot;&amp;gt;testtopic&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</a></span><br>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">By ursula 40 years 11 months ago<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> 0 n/a<br></blockquote></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Normal topic<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span thmr="thmr_70"><a href="/druptest/new-topic">&lt;span<br>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">thmr=&quot;thmr_40&quot;&gt;&lt;a<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">href=&quot;/druptest/new-topic&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;span<br>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">thmr=&amp;quot;thmr_15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">href=&amp;quot;/druptest/new-topic&amp;quot;&amp;gt;new<br>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">topic&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</a></span><br>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">By kwickly 40 years 11 months ago<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Additionally to the tags instead of just "testtopic" (liked), it shows<br>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">that I posted this 40 years and 11 months ago.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">When checking the posting directly, the date is correct, also the date on<br>
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">my<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">server is correct.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">First I thought it is an issue with the theme I was using, but after<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">changing themes twice (now at the default Bartik 7.0-rc1), it looks<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">like the problem is<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">somewhere else.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Any ideas?<br></blockquote>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Ursula<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">
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