Just expanding on David's suggestion: <br>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. <br>
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 <a href="http://trumantechnologies.com">http://trumantechnologies.com</a> (that's a zen sub-theme). <br>
<br>Ursula<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Metzler, David <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:metzlerd@evergreen.edu">metzlerd@evergreen.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Another idea would be to build the 4 column spots into the theme as<br>
regions that render gracefully if not present.. Then use views to<br>
create block(s) that drive each of the pieces of content into the<br>
regions based on your same concept of a field specifying the columns.<br>
In this way you could build other pages with similar layouts, and it<br>
might be more flexible over time, as you could build similar structures<br>
on different pages.<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
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Subject: [support] Custom Home Page<br>
<br>
I have a new D7 site with a unique home page--I am migrating the<br>
entire site from static HTML. There is a top part which will be a<br>
View, and then four columns below. One of those is a View, but the<br>
other three aren't. They are static content but the client of course<br>
wants to be able to edit them easily. One has<br>
<br>
Title, Text, Image, Video<br>
<br>
and the other two have<br>
<br>
Title, Text, Image, Link<br>
<br>
So between them there's only 5 unique fields really. The layout is<br>
specialized, so if they can just edit those, I can do the rest. So I<br>
have a few questions:<br>
<br>
1. My guess is that using Panels is overkill and I could just custom<br>
code a display for the home page. They have no plans to adjust<br>
anything beyond the content. Makes sense?<br>
<br>
2. To let them edit the content I could either make a special content<br>
type and then have a field to assign one to column 1,2,3, but then<br>
maybe they will create two nodes for col 1. So I suppose I could setup<br>
a Rule that if they create a node and assign to a column that already<br>
has a node, then the rule will unset the existing node of that column.<br>
Then they could keep the old ones around. Or I could unpublish the<br>
existing node.<br>
<br>
Any thoughts on this?<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
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