Hey guys, thanks for the feedback. See inlined comments...

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From: Steve Power <steev@initsix.co.uk>
To: support@drupal.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:18:13 AM
Subject: Re: [support] Newbie Qs

1) I tried adding a text field and text area to one of our Content types - an "Article". But I am not seeing any new content / text after I add some to one of the articles. What do I have to do to see those text changes in my page? Is there some kind of caching issue here?

Check out permissions in user settings, you have to allow users to see cck fields.

There's no module that I can see called Content Construction Kit (CCK). But I did try enabling anonymous and authenticated user access to view all fields in the "content_permissions module" module. As well, all users can view all "views" modules.

Now the page isn't even showing up (see http://fto.digitalrhino.biz/whatwedo), even though all pages are published. This is confusing :| 

2) I've made some changes to a template php file (and associated CSS). But those changes aren't being reflected in the pages served. Is there a caching issue here? Or does some file(s) need to be re-indexed?

go to performance in the site configuration menu and clear the cache.  Also install the theme developer module to ensure your tpls are gtting picked up OK

Ok, got this one. Thanks :)

3) With Drupal's content editor is there a way to do like here: http://digitalrhino.projectpath.com/projects/2836732/thumbnails/27705922

• make an image to span 2 fields
• have text split into 2 columns

 You probably want fckeditor or www.drupal.org/project/wysiwyg

I'll check out the fckeditor.

4) How do you manage the homepage that Drupal uses? I had a user delete the homepage and now I need to recreate it. But this doesn't seem to be a straightforward process.

/node should be a normal 'river of content' view. I would worry more about users being able to change the homepage atm than recreating it.

I don't quite follow this. How can a user (anonymous or authenticated) control what homepage appears? Or why would I want that to happen? In this case, I just want one homepage to appear all the time, and I can't see where to set that. This is obviously my lack of understanding of how Drupal handles this.


Thanks a lot
Tim

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