[support] Question regarding building a start page

[John Fletcher]

Find the file page.tpl.php in the directory of the theme you are using.
Create a copy of this file called page-front.tpl.php. Then add a few
paragraphs of text to this new file, and see what happens!

Fletch

-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Christian Schoepplein
Sent: Saturday, 31 January 2009 6:27 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] Question regarding building a start page

Hi Drupalers :),

I'm new to drupal and doing my first steps with the system and pages now. I
use drupal 6.9 and the standard Garlant theme. I also should mension that
I'm a blind computer user, but as far as I can say drupal seems to be very
accessible and good to use with the special screenreader software I need to
work.

To build a website I created new nodes of the type article and page. 
Both nodes appear on the startpage of my drupal site now and I can fully
access them by clicking the "Read more" link. But what I like to do is to
build a start page with a static section, maybe a little wellcome text, and
a dynamic section like it is presented on my start page now (some kind of
news with the "Read more" links). How can this be done with drupal. I played
arround with the system but I was not able to setup this kind of page :(. Is
it a matter of the theme I'm using or what do I need to do to build that
kind of pages?

Thanks a lot for anny helpfull tips!


Cheers,

  Christian


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Christian Schoepplein <chris at schoeppi.net>