table
{
border-collapse:collapse;
}
tr,td
{
padding:0;
}

When you then need to re-instate some space between particular cells, add the following into that cell’s CSS:

.spaced_cell
{
margin-bottom:1px solid black;
}

Probably a bit late now but have you tried mollom to stop spam in Drupal?

The site I am trying to work on was started by someone even more inexperienced than me. Now it is being hammered by spam, which is affecting spam filters, search indexes, etc. By limiting it to certain tables I can cut the export down to one/third of the full size. Any idea if this will work?

When working with templates the best practice approach would be to keep logic out of template files, and include this in template preprocess functions. If you do insist on doing this in a template file then you should use the imagecache theme function, rather than outputting the image code directly. This would make the code more portable. Something like:

< ?php
print theme('imagecache', 'thumbnail', $filepath);
?>

There is a more elegant way to do this without resorting to template hacking if you use views attachments. You can attach a single result view to the top of your teaser list, and then set the offset for the teaser list to 1. That way you can apply different settings to the first item in the list.

All the best,

Darren.

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