[support] Custom Home Page

[Ursula Pieper]

Just expanding on David's suggestion:
You can define a region with four sub-regions. The sub-regions would narrow
enough so that four of them fit into your region, and when floating them
left, you'll have the column look you are looking for.
You then can populate the "columns" as David suggested with a node or a
view. The node could then be put into that region with the option of only
appearing on the front page. I did this recently for
http://trumantechnologies.com (that's a zen sub-theme).

Ursula

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Metzler, David <metzlerd at evergreen.edu>wrote:

> Another idea would be to build the 4 column spots into the theme as
> regions that render gracefully if not present..  Then use views to
> create block(s) that drive each of the pieces of content into the
> regions based on your same concept of a field specifying the columns.
> In this way you could build other pages with similar layouts, and it
> might be more flexible over time, as you could build similar structures
> on different pages.
>
> Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of Fred Jones
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 8:32 AM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: [support] Custom Home Page
>
> 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.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Thanks.
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