[Nottingham] NLUG website: redecorated (actually, it's been gutted and rebuilt!)

[Michael Erskine]

On Monday 08 January 2007 15:20, Alan Pope wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 09:39 +0000, Michael Erskine wrote:
> > The purpose of the website is to present the "flavour" of the LUG to
> > interested parties and lost surfers.
> Looks vaguely familiar :) Drupal, good choice :)

Shhh! Don't tell anyone!

> Can I suggest you allow anonymous posting but set it so you have to
> moderate / approve them? I have found that drupal sites which require
> logins get a lot less feedback than those that allow it. Yes you might
> get some spam, but you just don't approve it, or install a spam
> prevention module.

Yeah, I know what you're getting at but I run quite a few sites off Drupal, 
some with anon posting with approval and I find that pretty much ALL of the 
anonymous feedback is just spam and the approvals process takes a lot of time 
for 50 pages of it!

> I would also suggest you enable friendly URLs to get rid of the
> horrid ?node= rubbish. 
> If you need any help setting that up let me know, I have done both
> before.

Thanks Alan. That's what I wanted to do but it claims not to work. What can I 
do to allow friendly URLs?

Regards,
Michael Erskine.

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