I use a combination of panels and role permissions to do this.

On Dec 26, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann wrote:

You'd think in all the time I've done Drupal I'd know how to do this. I want a front page to tell people to call so-and-so to register for the site. Beyond that, anonymous users need to be blocked for everything. If I turn off the "access published content" permission, they immediately get access denied.
 
Nancy
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