I'm not sure what the front page module does, but I've never needed anything special except views for my front page. I usually only use the basic title/body content type and then enable/disable the different blocks that I want displayed.
To turn off blocks on front page, go to the blocks admin page, scroll down to the "Page specific visibility settings" section, choose the "Show on every page except the list pages" radio button and enter "<front>" in the Pages textarea. That tells the block not to display on the front page.
Hope that helps Eric. Jean Gazis wrote:
My customer wants a static home landing page - do I have to install the front page module, or can I just turn off the menu block visibility etc. for the home page (leaving a link to main site, of course!), and do it through the existing site setup?
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