[support] Menus and Snippets

[Tibor Liktor]

Hi,

sorry for the late answer - I was busy a little bit, hehe. :))

For those who are still interested, I made a short howto here:

http://www.liktor.hu/en/creating_a_drupal_front_page_easily20060712

I am definitely not a blogger, but I hope you will find it useful

Best,
Tibor


On 6/28/06, Phares Kariuki <pherowze at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks... succeeded.......
>
> All the help is highly appreciated....
>
>
> On 6/23/06, Liktor Tibor <liktor at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > As I've said I used front_page module for establshing the front page
> > and Views module for creating the SQL queries for the snippets
> >
> > I created an XHMTL framework and put the queries into it, like:
> >
> > <div id="sticky_content">
> >   query: put here the lead of the sticky nodes
> > </div>
> > <div id="left_top_content">
> > query: put here the lead of newest node from term X
> > </div>
> > <div id="right_top_content">
> > query: put here the lead of newest node from term Y
> > </div>
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > ..and so on. That's all.
> >
> > AND all the display attributes are controlled by CSS!
> >
> > (I plan to launch a blog -hehehe- in the near future where I would put
> > stuffs like these, with detailed informations.
> > I'll get back to you when I'm ready.)
> >
> > Meanwhile your further questions are welcome.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Tibor
> >
> > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:00:07 +0300
> > "Phares Kariuki" < pherowze at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > How did you manage to get the snippets next to each other and create
> > > the sticky node? Which module is this... Thanks for the help, really
> > > useful....
> > >
> > > On 6/22/06, Liktor Tibor <liktor at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > So it automatically picks the latest article in each section and
> > > > > puts it in the front page...?
> > > > Yes. Last artiles from every node, and puts the sticky node in the
> > > > red box on the top
> > > >
> > > > >Is the image manually or automatically picked...?
> > > > Automatically.
> > > > The authors use Excerpt and Inline module. The images
> > > > sized by CSS code, and magnifies nicely with Lightbox2 module.
> > > >
> > > > The whole thing could be made easily with Drupal - I'm an XHTML/CSS
> > > > guy but speak a little PHP which is enough for this.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:55:11 +0300
> > > > Pherowze <pherowze at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > So it automatically picks the latest article in each section and
> > > > > puts it in the front page...? Is the image manually or
> > > > > automatically picked...?
> > > > >
> > > > > On 6/22/06, Liktor Tibor <liktor at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hey,
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > this is my work, I'm glad to hear that you like it. ;))
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I made it with front page, and made the necessary queries with
> > > > > > 'Views' module.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I took the queries and put them into an HTML-structure.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Anything else you would like to know?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Best,
> > > > > > Tibor
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:53:47 +0300
> > > > > > Pherowze < pherowze at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > I am currently working on a website and I want a frontpage
> > > > > > > snippet and a small image like the site
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > http://www.falanx.hu/
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Is there a module I can use to achieve this?
> > > > > > --
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> > > > >
> > > > >
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> > >
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> Warmest Regards,
>
> Phares Kariuki
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