Find the file page.tpl.php in the directory of the theme you are using. Create a copy of this file called page-front.tpl.php. Then add a few paragraphs of text to this new file, and see what happens!
Fletch
-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Christian Schoepplein Sent: Saturday, 31 January 2009 6:27 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: [support] Question regarding building a start page
Hi Drupalers :),
I'm new to drupal and doing my first steps with the system and pages now. I use drupal 6.9 and the standard Garlant theme. I also should mension that I'm a blind computer user, but as far as I can say drupal seems to be very accessible and good to use with the special screenreader software I need to work.
To build a website I created new nodes of the type article and page. Both nodes appear on the startpage of my drupal site now and I can fully access them by clicking the "Read more" link. But what I like to do is to build a start page with a static section, maybe a little wellcome text, and a dynamic section like it is presented on my start page now (some kind of news with the "Read more" links). How can this be done with drupal. I played arround with the system but I was not able to setup this kind of page :(. Is it a matter of the theme I'm using or what do I need to do to build that kind of pages?
Thanks a lot for anny helpfull tips!
Cheers,
Christian
-- Christian Schoepplein <chris at schoeppi.net>