[support] Front page customization - 2 new columns with aggregated news

[Bill Fitzgerald]

Either the panels module and/or the front page module will get you most, 
if not all, of the way there.

Cheers,

Bill

Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I want to customize the front page of a new Drupal site. I want three 
> columns in the front page other than the left and right side bars. Two 
> of these columns should aggregate news from RSS feeds. The third column 
> should contain the regular posts from page and story nodes promoted to 
> the front page.
>
> Below is the layout of the front page I want to achieve
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Header
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Left Sidebar| News 1| News 2| Page/Story nodes| | Right side bar
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Footer
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> What are my options? Can I achieve this through configuring blocks and 
> aggregator? Are there any modules that can do this? Do I need to write 
> new PHP code?
>
> I would appreciate any ideas, suggestions or pointers.
>
>   


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