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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I really like the simplicity and elegance <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nancy</st1:place></st1:City>’s solution!
Will certainly add this to my bag of tricks…. Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Dave<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> support-bounces@drupal.org
[mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf
Of </span></b><st1:PersonName w:st="on">Ms. Nancy Wichmann</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, January 30, 2012
9:03 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">support@drupal.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [support] Custom Home
Page</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:#FF007F;
font-style:italic'>Nancy</span></font></i></b></strong></st1:place></st1:City><font
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Fred Jones</span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>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>
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Title, Text, Image, Video<br>
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and the other two have<br>
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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>
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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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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