<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">brendan</b> <<a href="mailto:hello@fresh-off.com">hello@fresh-off.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<font face="Georgia"><b>hello!</b><br>
<b>i've got a wireframe/basic layout that i'd like to implement in
drupal. </b><br>
<i>i have some BASIC php skills, but am quite comfortable with xhtml
& advanced CSS. I'm also in the middle of reading "Pro Drupal
Development" - so i'm somewhat familiar with the idea of replacing
certain template pages in order to customize the look of specific
pages. (note, i actually haven't DONE that yet... just read about it
in the book) - but it seems pretty doable!</i><br>
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i think my site can be broken down into three page types:<br>
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<li><font face="Georgia">The Home Page <br>
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<li><font face="Georgia">Content Pages</font></li>
<li><font face="Georgia">Portfolio Pages</font></li>
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<font face="Georgia">you can see a wireframe illustration of my
homepage here: <br>
<a href="http://img30.picoodle.com/img/img30/8/6/18/f_homepagem_68ba209.gif" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://img30.picoodle.com/img/img30/8/6/18/f_homepagem_68ba209.gif</a> <br>
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<b>But, I dont know how to organize all the content types on the front
page... <br>
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Questions:</b><br>
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<li><font face="Georgia">Should i sent the homepage up as a "story",
or as a "page"? </font></li></ol></div></blockquote><div><br>Probably in page.tpl.php. You maybe want to use the frontpage module or $is_front.</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><ol><li><font face="Georgia">Is positioning the blog teaser (right
column), and
the "image gallery & caption" (left column) simply a matter of what
theme i have installed?</font></li></ol></div></blockquote><div><br>Yes. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<ol><li><font face="Georgia">Should i create a custom content type for
the image gallery & text description (left column)?</font></li></ol></div></blockquote><div><br>Probably, it can help/speed up theming a lot. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><ol><li><font face="Georgia">Is there some other question i should be
asking in regards to how to carry this out?</font></li></ol></div></blockquote><div><a href="http://drupal.org/node/509">http://drupal.org/node/509</a> <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><font face="Georgia">i have drupal installed at </font><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://drupal.fresh-off.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://drupal.fresh-off.com</a> , but there's not much to
see yet.<br>
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Like others, i'm trying to document my learning process, and hope one
day to be able to publish it for others to learn from!<br>
Thanks for any help you can give me. Also, if this question has been
answered in the forums (which it likely has) - suggestions on what to
search for might be helpful as well!<br>
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thanks every so much for reading, and any help you're able to offer!<br>
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<b>brendan</b><br>
<br></font></div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/themes" target="_blank"></a></blockquote></div><br>Good luck with your theme/site!<br><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Regards,<br> Johan Forngren :: <a href="http://johan.forngren.com/">http://johan.forngren.com/</a>