North Carolina

Thanks much, all, for your input on web hosts you like. I have one more bleg: site uptime services you like. This is a surprisingly expensive service and I'd be curious about positive experiences you have had.

I am using Site Uptime's one free account, which is great, but their first level of paid service $5/month 3 sites or $60 a year seems steep to me.

Thanks again!

I'm in my first attempt at building a custom module and I've run into a problem I can't seem to find an answer for. It's a task I've done a millions times using various scripting languages, but despite hours pouring over the Forms API and other resources, I cannot figure out how I'm supposed to do this. And I'm sure someone is going to point to some simple thing I'm missing here....

I'm at the beginning of a long learning curve on Drupal, with this question today.

My site will use a variety of photos and graphics. Is there any standard practice for where to locate these items? I'm assuming that creating a directory or two under /sites/all would be logical. That would give me

/sites/all

       /modules
       /themes
       /photos
       /graphics
       /videos         ....etc.

So, not sure really what happened, but all fo the sudden files in the sites/default/files folder are not accessible. I was updating a module when all hell broke loose. I pinned it to the css file stored in default/files was not being read. I then realized that NO file in that folder was readable.

Permissions are 755 for default and 755 for files.

Installing drupal (6.x), linked to new DB, then a variety of stupid problems after which I deleted the DB to start over. Edited settings.php to reflect new DB name and login. Drupal doesn't come up . . .

1) should it, if I correctly edited settings.php? or do I need to change other files as well?

2) or - is deleting the DB an hour after I started a no-no and other recovery or re-install tactics are necessary.

Thanks for any and all help! - Jim

So, I've given myself (and spared you) three days to try and get this to work. Didn't happen.

I created a Custom Subscription (Node Type: Announcement) and cannot get it to send email OR queue. I can subscribe to content types, like Page, Story, etc. I have a custom content type, Announcement, that I want people to be able to subscribe to. Any ideas of why this isn't working or what I can do to troubleshoot?

Like I said, I've spent three days reading threads, tinkering, checking this and unchecking that, nada. Oh, and this framework doesn't provide much in the way of log entries :\

I was curious if anyone from NC / SC / East coast was interested or heading out to Drupal Camp Austin? It's only $40 to attend 2 days next weekend, but the trip is about 19 hours for us.

Would anyone be interested in saving some money and car pooling down and back? I would love to go but don't have a reliable vehicle to make the trip. I live in Asheville, NC.