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I'm seriously considering investing in myself by buying some training, taking a few days off my job and going on a course for such things. I've done a bit of google searching but I thought I'd ask here for recommendations, durations, price guides/ranges.

With a publishing workflow how does a person most securely get HTML markup (down? not sure) into text? It also has to be simple or at least easy explained for stupid people like myself to use. I wouldn't mind a WYSIWYG without all that hidden garble that comes when something is pasted out of Word.

EDIT: Maybe something that corrects my grammar too. Just kidding. I did once read an issues thread writing by Dries threatening to ban somebody for poor grammar that was posted in 2004. I wish I saved it because it is priceless.

We're trying to implement a Q&A side for our news site, and got through 95%-ish of it this weekend at GiveCamp following this tutorial, but I'm running into problems getting the fivestar to save the rating properly ... I think I've messed up the relationship somehow but I can't figure what gives.

The site is live on our dev, and everything looks perfect except that if you click one of the rating options, you get the following:

For background, we are a fairly large publisher driving Drupal 6 with Vjoon K4 publishing platform tied to InDesign/InCopy. So...

We publish a breaking news story to Web: "Two die in Union Square apartment fire"

The story is indexed by search engines and traffic starts coming.

But then, reporter says he has updated news story: "Ten die in Union Square hotel arson fire"

Hi,
I am a drupal developer for past one year.
My client have asked me to build a news publishing site. I am new to this domain, I have read many forums and found that there are some installation profiles for NEWS publications like openpublish , prosepoint etc,..
I am confused to choose the one, i read this main points of this group and they have listed all the modules, i can build with that, the problem i have is that it needs to be build in a weeks time, so i cant do by that way, i must go for prebuild system.

I have a taxonomy vocabulary "topics" with a number of terms "news, cover stories, people and places, etc...". Each article node that I created has one of the these terms and other taxonomy terms created by the semantic tagging service, Calais. I use the "topics" taxonomy to organize my articles throughout the site.

Searching through the web, I've come across solutions that using views and arguments to create a block with related nodes, but they create relationships based on all of the terms of the node (including the Calais terms).

I have a weekly newspaper site that has been active for a year+ - using the Newswire theme. Lately I have been looking at modifying the site/theme and have just started to do research. I see this package called OpenPublish and, since this is a newspaper web site, I am intrigued.

My question is, can this be installed on my current domain and played with in the background or, will just installing possibly cause issues with the current site that is operating due to the "hacked" modules that are mentioned as part of the OpenPublish package?

I am trying to figure out how to place different artwork at the top of the body area, and different ads, depending on taxonomy terms.

For instance for editorials I want to show a certain graphic, for sports a different one.

I can distinguish these because I set up Taxonomy Terms of 'Editorials' and 'Sports'.

In addition, when a user selects Sports, for instance, I want to show different ads in the sidebar.

I suspect there are modules that take care of this, but what are they?

thanks, Jim Hoyt.

Is there a way to "mass update" or "bulk update" more than one item in Workflow to a new status ... on a scheduled date and time?

I have seen View Bulk Operations mentioned as a way to mass update the Workflow status of items; the only problem with that approach is that the change is executed immediately. I need to be able to set the date and time of the change, rather than having the status of the items changed immediately.

Any suggestions?

Hello,

I am a PHP developer and now I am onto drupal.

Basically the requirements are simple. I need to create a newspaper website.

I checked the list of modules that are used in newspaper site and that was a great help. Thanks for posting things like that and making life bit easier for us new comers.

I would just like to know one more thing. If I am developing a custom theme then can anyone suggest me a good starting point. If it has some elements that are suitable for newspaper site then it would be great as I can also see how the things work in themes department.

Thanking You.