Custom Front Page

Posted by robin.prieschl on February 25, 2009 at 8:19am

Hi All

Is this the best and most common way to creating custom home pages?

It seems to be focused on creating custom blocks and making them display only on the front page and then styling them.

Thanks

Robin

Comments

Posted by Max_Headroom on February 25, 2009 at 8:43am

I did not see the video, but you might want to look at this module:
http://drupal.org/project/panels

Quentin

Posted by robin.prieschl on February 26, 2009 at 10:48am

Thanks, checked it out, but it seems like it isn't production ready as yet.

Robin

Posted by Max_Headroom on February 26, 2009 at 11:32am

I use it for the front page and another members only page:
www.egac.co.za

Try it, if it does not work for you, just remove it.

There's another similar module, forgot the name. Maybe Lilianplanet can help us here....

Quentin

Posted by liliplanet on February 27, 2009 at 8:49am

You could try http://drupal.org/project/composite which is similar to Panels ...

Posted by foxtrotcharlie on March 13, 2009 at 8:10am

You could use template suggestions as described here if you want to override the page template for a node: http://drupal.org/node/104316

I've even set up a specific home page content type which you can then override using a custom template: http://drupal.org/node/17565

I'd also have to second the call for using panels - brilliant and powerful module. I haven't tried composite yet.