[support] Change home page from story to page?

[Metzler, David]

And to add even more power, take a look at panels module.  You can for
example create a three column display that only shows up for one page
that includes. 

* multiple Views
* Individual nodes, 
* Blocks
* Custom PHP code. 

These are independent of theme regions and only show up on the page you
add them to.  You can move the individual blocks/views/nodes around on
the panel and reorder them using a slick gui interface. I use panels on
almost all of my sites. 

Dave

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of J-P Stacey
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 6:57 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Change home page from story to page?

Roy Smith wrote:
> This may be a dumb question, but how do you get additional pages which

> act like the front page, i.e. you can have a bunch of individually 
> editable stories floating around which are serialized onto a single 
> page?

The views module would do that for you: Views and Views UI together for
the editing interface at Admin > Site building > Views. There are
several good tutorials for the views module on drupal.org so I won't
repeat here.

Each view can support requests to a particular URL by enabling its Page
mode: so you can register a view to handle a request to
mysite.example.com/views_of_my_nodes/most_recent_sandwiches , or
whatever. 
There's no real restriction on the syntax.

Cheers,
J-P
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