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Drupal on Bluehost giving me grief!

I have a drupal site running with BlueHost.

A few days ago, I noticed that if I try to go to the admin panel and do admin by module, I get an error that says:

Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 22784 bytes) in...

Any idea what's going on? I can't administer by module now. Not sure what happened between me getting these errors and before, maybe a new user registered or something?

StatCounter in block is invisible...but block is not!

So I'm trying to add StatCounter (see for instance: http://www.statcounter.com) code into my drupal project. I see that the StatCounter pages suggest adding it as a block. Unfortunately, my template is such that even if the statcounter code is invisible, it somehow "thinks" there is stuff in the block, so it builds a little block with empty fields (i.e. an empty block, basically just a container) that looks unsightly and I can't get rid of no matter what I do. (Well I can disable the block, but that disables statcounter too!). 

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Installing a WYSIWYG editor in Drupal

Installing a human-readable, easy to use editor is probably one of the first things you'll want to do after installing Drupal. A WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) text editor enables you to quickly edit and add content to your website by simply entering text and images that are automatically formatted and converted to html by your editor as you type. In this way, you never have to worry about fiddling about with messy html code.

To install a WYSIWYG editor in Drupal, perform the following steps:

Getting rid of "created by" fields in custom content types

Does anyone know how to get rid of the "Created by" author and date fields in custom content types? I'm using CCK and created a "recipe" content type, but the author and date always pops out and I want to hide it somehow. I looked all over the CCK field and type configuration but couldn't find an obvious button to turn it off. I also tried just leaving the author and date field blank when I actually create the content but that just defaults to author: anonymous and system time. Is hiding/turning those fields off possible for custom content?

Thx!

How to collapse comments on forums module?

So I just created a forum with drupal and the comments show up indented relative to the previous comment. That is all cool except when there are many replies. Is there a way to collaps the comments somehow?

My theme reverts to admin theme when a user tries to "create new forum topic"

Hey, folks, I am a Drupal newbe but maybe someone here can help me.

I enabled the Bluemarine theme and playing around with the .css file I modified it to have a black background with really bright green letters for my webpages theme and I saved this new theme under the name "blackthunder" and I put that as my webpages theme but kept bluemarine as the administrator pages theme.

How to find Drupal version?

I downloaded Drupal but forgot what version it was. I need to add an old patch that only seems to work for some versions and not others but do not want to risk breaking things if it turns out that my Drupal version is the wrong one.

Anybody know how I can check my version of Drupal?

Your Development Method

Choosing “how to build” your website depends on your needs, including not only the website requirements (what content and features it offers and what types of visitors it is targeted to), but also your requirements in terms of time, budget, and skills you have available.

Step 2: Choosing a development method and platform

Once you have identified your website’s needs, choosing a development method (the process or steps you follow to edit, add content, add features, test, and launch your website, in other words “how to build it”)) and platform (the hardware and software tools that enable you to implement your development method, in other words “with what to build it”) is a lot less intimidating than it appears.