Front page customization - 2 new columns with aggregated news
Hello List, I want to customize the front page of a new Drupal site. I want three columns in the front page other than the left and right side bars. Two of these columns should aggregate news from RSS feeds. The third column should contain the regular posts from page and story nodes promoted to the front page. Below is the layout of the front page I want to achieve ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Header ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Left Sidebar| News 1| News 2| Page/Story nodes| | Right side bar ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Footer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What are my options? Can I achieve this through configuring blocks and aggregator? Are there any modules that can do this? Do I need to write new PHP code? I would appreciate any ideas, suggestions or pointers. -- With Warm Regards, Sudheer. S http://www.binaryvibes.co.in
Hi, On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 14:27 +0530, Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote:
Hello List,
I want to customize the front page of a new Drupal site. I want three columns in the front page other than the left and right side bars.
Try http://drupal.org/project/panels Xav
Either the panels module and/or the front page module will get you most, if not all, of the way there. Cheers, Bill Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote:
Hello List,
I want to customize the front page of a new Drupal site. I want three columns in the front page other than the left and right side bars. Two of these columns should aggregate news from RSS feeds. The third column should contain the regular posts from page and story nodes promoted to the front page.
Below is the layout of the front page I want to achieve ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Header ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Left Sidebar| News 1| News 2| Page/Story nodes| | Right side bar ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Footer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What are my options? Can I achieve this through configuring blocks and aggregator? Are there any modules that can do this? Do I need to write new PHP code?
I would appreciate any ideas, suggestions or pointers.
-- Bill Fitzgerald http://www.funnymonkey.com Tools for Teachers 503.897.7160
In the front page module youcan paste your own html code for the frontpage. using panels you can assign blocks and page content to different regions on the content area. shyamala team leader netlink technologies ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Fitzgerald" <bill@funnymonkey.com> To: <support@drupal.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:29 PM Subject: Re: [support] Front page customization - 2 new columns with aggregated news
Either the panels module and/or the front page module will get you most, if not all, of the way there.
Cheers,
Bill
Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote:
Hello List,
I want to customize the front page of a new Drupal site. I want three columns in the front page other than the left and right side bars. Two of these columns should aggregate news from RSS feeds. The third column should contain the regular posts from page and story nodes promoted to the front page.
Below is the layout of the front page I want to achieve ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Header ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Left Sidebar| News 1| News 2| Page/Story nodes| | Right side bar ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Footer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What are my options? Can I achieve this through configuring blocks and aggregator? Are there any modules that can do this? Do I need to write new PHP code?
I would appreciate any ideas, suggestions or pointers.
-- Bill Fitzgerald http://www.funnymonkey.com Tools for Teachers 503.897.7160
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Thanks Xav, You showed me the way to do it with the existing modules. With Views and Panels I'm able to achieve the desired layout of the page. In the left block of the Panel I have added the news item from the aggregator. This is working great. However, the aggregated news displays only the News Feed Title and individual news item titles in this block. Is there a way to get the news body to display in this block along with the news item titles? I appreciate the support I am receiving from this list. I hope Xav or another kind soul can show me how to do this. Thanks, Hi, On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 14:27 +0530, Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote:
Hello List,
I want to customize the front page of a new Drupal site. I want three columns in the front page other than the left and right side bars.
Try http://drupal.org/project/panels Xav Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote:
Hello List,
I want to customize the front page of a new Drupal site. I want three columns in the front page other than the left and right side bars. Two of these columns should aggregate news from RSS feeds. The third column should contain the regular posts from page and story nodes promoted to the front page.
Below is the layout of the front page I want to achieve ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Header ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Left Sidebar| News 1| News 2| Page/Story nodes| | Right side bar ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Footer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What are my options? Can I achieve this through configuring blocks and aggregator? Are there any modules that can do this? Do I need to write new PHP code?
I would appreciate any ideas, suggestions or pointers.
-- With Warm Regards, Sudheer. S http://www.binaryvibes.co.in
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Bill Fitzgerald -
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Xavier Bestel