[support] Custom Home Page

[Anthony]

These are priceless ruminations for me as a beginner.

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Ursula Pieper <dramamezzo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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