paulthebaptist

paulthebaptist

Real Name: Paul T. Sprague

Technical Lead - Embedded Software

Latest Contributions

  • drupal 6 and calendars

    Hey folks!

    We are starting to play around with drupal for building our church website. We have downloaded and installed the latest drupal (6.2). One concern we have is that there doesn't seem to be a calendar solution for 6.x yet. We are just looking for something simple like the calendar on the St. Matthews site. My questions are:

    - Am I confused? Is there a 6.x calendar solution available? Is 6.x too new to use yet? Should we be using 5.x?

    - I see discussion about the event module vs. CCK/View/Date+Calendar. Looks like CCK/View w/Date+Calendar is the way to go...do you agree...is there consensus on this within the Drupal community?

    - I see that Calendar and Date have good handbooks detailing how to set things up but again doesn't seem to be updated for 6.x...=8(

    What do you think?
    ptb

  • html table/image problem

    I have recently been added to my Church's web team and am tinkering around trying to learn things so that I can be of help in the future. (I'm an embedded software engineer with little web experience.) I have a problem when I try to display images within a table. I have some html code that works fine when I load it locally on my laptop, but does not display correctly when it is loaded from our hosting site. I seem to end up with gaps below some images within the table. I have tryed setting cellspacing and border to zero with no luck. Note that our hosting site is e-zekiel...anyone have any experience with them? Here is a snippet of code.

    <table width="221" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
        <tbody>
            <tr>
                <td><img width="25" height="25" border="0" alt="" src="images/Lcolumn1.png" /></td>
                <td><img width="165" height="25" border="0" alt="" src="images/Lcolumn2.gif" /></td>
                <td><img width="31" height="25" border="0" alt="" src="images/Lcolumn3.png" /></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td background="images/Lcolumntile1.gif">&nbsp;</td>
                <td bgcolor="white">Links here!</td>
                <td background="images/Lcolumntile2.png">&nbsp;</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td><img width="25" height="31" border="0" alt="" src="images/Lcolumnb1.png" /></td>
                <td><img width="165" height="31" border="0" alt="" src="images/Lcolumnb2.png" /></td>
                <td><img width="31" height="31" border="0" alt="" src="images/Lcolumnb3.png" /></td>
            </tr>
        </tbody>
    </table>

    In this case there are gaps between the two top side png images and their neighbor gif/png below them in the second row. There may be a gap between the top center gif and below it but I can't be sure as it fades to white. The rest of the table fits together fine. I also have other tables/images with the same problem. I originally thought it was a 'first row' problem but if I duplicate the first row here twice, I see the problem with both rows. Again, this table looks fine if I load it locally on my laptop.

    Can anyone help? I apologize if this is a bit too detailed a question...

    ptb