[support] Custom Home Page

[Ms. Nancy Wichmann]

Something a lot of people fail to notice is that the Content area is a region; you can place blocks there. If that's not enough, many themes already have a Content Top and Content Bottom region; if your theme doesn't creating a sub-theme with those regions is not hard.

I had a similar column issue with one of my customers. In this case it was at the bottom of the home page. So I stuck the three blocks into Content bottom and used CSS to float them so they ended up next to each other rather than stacked vertically.

 
Nancy 
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>________________________________
> From: Fred Jones
>
I have a new D7 site with a unique home page--I am migrating the
>entire site from static HTML. There is a top part which will be a
>View, and then four columns below. One of those is a View, but the
>other three aren't. They are static content but the client of course
>wants to be able to edit them easily. One has
>
>Title, Text, Image, Video
>
>and the other two have
>
>Title, Text, Image, Link
>
>So between them there's only 5 unique fields really. The layout is
>specialized, so if they can just edit those, I can do the rest. So I
>have a few questions:
>
>1. My guess is that using Panels is overkill and I could just custom
>code a display for the home page. They have no plans to adjust
>anything beyond the content. Makes sense?
>
>2. To let them edit the content I could either make a special content
>type and then have a field to assign one to column 1,2,3, but then
>maybe they will create two nodes for col 1. So I suppose I could setup
>a Rule that if they create a node and assign to a column that already
>has a node, then the rule will unset the existing node of that column.
>Then they could keep the old ones around. Or I could unpublish the
>existing node.
>
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