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

[Rajaram Shyamala]

In the front page module youcan paste your own html code for the frontpage.

using panels you can assign blocks and page content  to different regions on 
the content area.

shyamala
team leader
netlink technologies
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Fitzgerald" <bill at funnymonkey.com>
To: <support at drupal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [support] Front page customization - 2 new columns with 
aggregated news


> 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.
>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Bill Fitzgerald
> http://www.funnymonkey.com
> Tools for Teachers
> 503.897.7160
>
> -- 
> [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]