hello
is there a way not to publish any node at the front page?
at www.nattiq.info, I don't want any node to be published, because i let the views module take care of this by generating a block. but if I don't promote any item to the front page I get "welcome to your drupal powered website, ....". is there a way to get red of this?
I tried setting the front page to nothing instead of "node" in the setting page, but this generates "page not found" in the front page.
the setting currently is that I create an empty node and promote it, but this generates "node/#" which is annoying.
Regards, Mohammed al-shar'
Mohammed Al-shar' wrote:
hello
is there a way not to publish any node at the front page?
What you want to do is to create a page to take the place of the front page, and then set the default frontpage to the URL of that. So you have to answer the question of "If I don't want content promoted to the front page, what content do I want there?"
The simplest way is to create a page node, and set the default frontpage to "node/NID" where NID is the node id of the page you created.
hello earl!
thank you. I just solved it by changing the view from a block to a page and set the front page to highlights. it worked beautifully.
can somebody have a look and confirm it visually? if it looks ok? thanks in advance. the url is: www.nattiq.info Regards, Mohammed al-shar' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Earl Miles" merlin@logrus.com To: support@drupal.org Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [support] welcome to your drupal powered
Mohammed Al-shar' wrote:
hello
is there a way not to publish any node at the front page?
What you want to do is to create a page to take the place of the front page, and then set the default frontpage to the URL of that. So you have to answer the question of "If I don't want content promoted to the front page, what content do I want there?"
The simplest way is to create a page node, and set the default frontpage to "node/NID" where NID is the node id of the page you created.
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"Mohammed Al-shar'" wrote:
can somebody have a look and confirm it visually? if it looks ok?
Well, Mohammed, I don't think is going to work for you. The three-column space under the intro (mission?) produces columns which are too narrow to hold your headlines. The headlines bleed out from the borders you've provided on those columns.
Perhaps you want a whole different front page, without any of the side menus yet? There are modules/ways to implement this. The 'frontpage' module is a good choice, I think, for a basic "different" front page.
Anyway, you asked for some feedback on the visuals, and so: it's broken. :)
thank you.
the problem with the front module is that it won't work well with the i18 module, I am not sure though.
I now changed it to a 2 collumn layout, will it work? or is it too narrow? and, if so, is there a space in the page that wouldn't be so narrow for it? I could think of giving up some items like the mission, for instance.
any suggestions, views, will be highly appreciated. the url again is: www.nattiq.info
Regards, Mohammed al-shar' ----- Original Message ----- From: "inkfree press" inkfree@gmail.com To: "Drupal-support" support@drupal.org Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:16 PM Subject: Re: [support] welcome to your drupal powered
"Mohammed Al-shar'" wrote:
can somebody have a look and confirm it visually? if it looks ok?
Well, Mohammed, I don't think is going to work for you. The three-column space under the intro (mission?) produces columns which are too narrow to hold your headlines. The headlines bleed out from the borders you've provided on those columns.
Perhaps you want a whole different front page, without any of the side menus yet? There are modules/ways to implement this. The 'frontpage' module is a good choice, I think, for a basic "different" front page.
Anyway, you asked for some feedback on the visuals, and so: it's broken. :) -- inkfree
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"Mohammed Al-shar'" wrote:
I now changed it to a 2 collumn layout, will it work? or is it too narrow? and, if so, is there a space in the page that wouldn't be so narrow for it?
That's better, but still a little narrow for me, personally.
There seems to be lots of margin (or padding) on these boxed elements. If I were you, I would consider changing that. I do not know how panels writes its markup, but what you need is something similar to an "odd" and "even" class on a vertical table. In this case, you need to know if the box is going "left" or "right" in the 2-column spread.
You want (I think) to be able to have 0px on the outside edge (left edge for a left box, right edge for a right box) and 2px to 4px on the inside edges (left edge for a right box, right edge for a left box). This will give you a "gutter" between your 2 columns, and the gutter will be double the padding width (2px + 2px = 4px gutter).
Anyway, the point is: The boxes are better now, but they still have too much space _around_ them, which you could be using to make them about 10px or more wider.
P.S.
As a side note regarding your page title: I think you should remove the word "the" in the title "Promoting Privacy and Independence for the Visually-challenged Arabs".
Since this is an English title that I see, the word "the" is a bit misused here. "We" (English speakers) would not say "for the Visually-challenged Arabs", even though we would say "...for the Visually-challenged". I mean, you might find some folks who would speak this, it is less likely to find it written.
I would strike that word entirely for a more readable (English) title.
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