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Hello,
I'm want to create a column with a list of blocks of blog teasers that link to the full entry. The "Design News" column seen at this site: http://www.noupe.com/ is nearly identical to what I'd like to accomplish. From what I can see, a combination of Views and CCK should produce the effect. In goggling around however, all the tutorials I've seen for implementing Views (or Views/CCK) were written for Drupal 5. So my two questions are:

1. Is using Views and CCK the best route to create my list/column of blog teasers?
2. Is there much difference between using Views and CCK in Drupal 5 than in Drupal? Will the D5 tutorials lead me astray?

THANKS!!

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caole261188 commented

From my own experience, CCK has nothing to do with creating a list of blog teasers, as long as you're using the core blog module. Views can do it alone.

1. There are two ways to create that kind of list:
- Manual coding a block, and then enable it in the Administrator. If you need flexibility and more customization, and if you also know how to code a Drupal block, you can go this way.
- Using Views to create a block/page for you. This is definitely the time-saving and user-friendly way to create a block without knowledge of coding. If you only need post titles and teasers to appear in the block, this is the way to go.

2. In principle, if you understand the way Views work, there will be no difficulty for you to reference to a guide written for a different version of Drupal. If you are not familiar with Views yet, please refer to the documentation (if there is any), or start experimenting it and learning along the way.

My answer is kinda long and not to the point, but I hope it helps you somehow.

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fresh-off commented

hey caole261188 ,
that got me started on the right track. Thanks!!

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