I am still trying to understand Drupal and am having some conceptual problems with it. I would appreciate any and all help. Basically, I want to set up a blog on my site and cannot figure out the best way to do it/format it. I am currently using the Basic Theme and would like the blog entries to look different than they do. Right now, it looks like one big blog of text and is terrible (kind of like this post). I want to be able to have a user picture, title of the blog, time posted, a separator, tags, and the blog body. Also, I don't want all of the information on separate lines but nicely formatted. Do I have to edit the PHP files to accomplish this? If so, which ones? Do I create a view and edit the output of the view? If so, where would I do that? I am pretty lost and am trying to understand what would be the best way to do this. Thank you very much in advance.
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Inspect your input formats in administer -> input formats. If you use carriage returns the line break filter should kick in and insert the necessary tags to create the breaks. However based on this forum post you aren't ever hitting the carriage return.
administer -> user settings enable the user pictures. Then go to administer -> themes -> configure your theme and enable the user pictures in posts and or comments.
Every node has a title. Where are you expecting titles that you aren't seeing them? Please be more descriptive.
Not exactly sure what you mean here. See my respose to your first question above, if that doesn't answer this question too. consider being more descriptive.
You do not edit PHP files to stytle drupal. You edit the css and tpl.php files depending on exactly what you want to do. Two tools to work with to better theme your site is the firefox browser with the firebug addon.
Depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Views is a query writer that allows you to create lists/views of content.
Views.module is a contributed module and requires you to download it and install it. Get the advanced help.module too. Adavnced help exposes a great deal of documentation and there is a plethora of documentation and tutorials on how to use views that can be found with google.
Thank you for the quick
Thank you for the quick response. I will work on these when I get home from my real job tonight and see what I can come up with.
To be more specific, I will
To be more specific, I will provide an example of my blog, and a blog I would like it to look like. I do not know if I need to change the block settings, the views settings, the .tpl.php files, css, etc. (but I am assuming some variation of all of them). My current blog is here and the blog I like is here. If you could point me in some of the direction on how to get from mine to a similar version of the one I like, I would really appreciate it (talking more about the layout of the title, the line under the title, submitted by, submitted on, and the tags- not as much the colors and border of the block). Thank you for any help you can offer.
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http://drupal.org/project/pixture_reloaded
more information on working with themes can be found in the theme developers guide in the documentation area. Two tools that will be of benefit is the firefox browser with the firebug addon.
Thank you- I will look into
Thank you- I will look into this. I appreciate your time and response.