[support] Custom Home Page

[Metzler, David]

I really like the simplicity and elegance Nancy's solution!  Will
certainly add this to my bag of tricks.... Thanks!

 

If you need the additional flexibility, You could also create view that
will only ever return 4 nodes to populate the bottom region and css
float them all .  Extra fields or taxonomy terms to control selection
and order.  


Dave

 

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Ms. Nancy Wichmann
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 9:03 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Custom Home Page

 

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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