<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>Just adding blocks on the front page only does not require a special template. That's standard block settings. "Show on only..." and "<front>.<br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br><span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>I can't recall whether the "content bottom" region is standard in D7. But I did exactly what you want (D6) on </span><a href="http://www.bostonpublicschools.org/">http://www.bostonpublicschools.org<br></a></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>I simply floated the blocks in the content bottom region and gave them a width of 30% with a bit of right margin. No special template.<br> </div><div><font color="#ff007f" face="bookman old
style, new york, times, serif" size="4"><i><b>Nancy</b></i></font> <br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.</font></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Hakan</font><br></div><br>Using Drupal 7 ... Zen theme as a base, created a subtheme etc. which went well.<br>After creating a tpl.php file just for the front page, I have now added a custom region<br> (between the main content and the footer) and added three blocks to this custom<br>region using the Block Administration
page of the theme. Using weights<br>I can arrange the order of the three blocks I have, provided I want<br>them one below the other.<br><br>However, I want them side-by-side and I want each block to have some<br>custom formatting. After Googling the drupal site I found this link<br>http://drupal.org/node/1151704 which seems to address my problem.<br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>