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Drupal : The bits I don't like...

2004-09-15

I like Drupal, it is very slick. Drupal is the free community software, stored on my server at Ultralab (1990-2006) which serves this dynamic driven website. I've moved from ' Movable Type ' to Drupal because of the constant spamming of the comments fields by the nasty internet s

I like Drupal, it is very slick. Drupal is the free community software, stored on my server at Ultralab (1990-2006) which serves this dynamic driven website. I've moved from ' Movable Type ' to Drupal because of the constant spamming of the comments fields by the nasty internet spam people within my previous Movable Type managed homepage. However, there are a couple of bugs I've found with Drupal....not big, but frustrating.....First one is that there is no field for 'Name' when an unregistered guest leaves a comment to a blog entry, just a field allowing a comment. The second bug concerns bold , Italic , Underline and lists... ....displayed as bullet points Drupal takes the first part of a blog entry and displays it as a preview, allowing the reader to click a link and read the rest of an entry, if the reader like what they have already previewed. However, if a bold , Italic , Underline or even a list tag is not closed by the end of the preview code, automatically extracted by Drupal...... you'll find the rest of the entire blog front page ends up in bold , Italic , Underline or as a list because the end tag (in HTML code) has not been closed within the preview selection. If this …

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