By markboots on

Hi, i'm just with drupal and allready have a problem wich i cant solve.
My front page still contains the standard "Welcom to your new Drupal-website"-page.
I tried several things, but what i want is a standard page wich doesnt link to a menu or other page.
I tried to make a simple blok with text wich i only made visable on the front page, but the standard welcom "Welcom to your new Drupal-website", is still there. Can anyone help me to solve this?

My website is in Dutch but i think you know what i mean when you go to www.bigboots.nl

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Jennifer_M’s picture

Jennifer_M commented

Make a new page or "story" and put your text into this instead of into the block. Near the bottom of the "new content" form there's a tick box for promoting your new thing to be on the front page. When you promote at least one node to the front page this will cause the Welcome message to disappear. I.e. the default Welcome's on/off "doesn't count" blocks as content, but it does count other pages.

Or if you don't want to do that... see also http://drupal.org/node/189258

(This issue comes up a lot so I can't help suspecting that you didn't do much of a search before asking - it's definitely worth searching the Drupal forums first for the answer to any question, because they are full of richness :-) Just be sure to note whether a thread is talking about the same version as yours - answers for D5 may not be true for D6, etc.)

appmux’s picture

appmux commented

Or just remove "Welcome to your new Drupal website!" message using a module for that:

http://drupal.org/project/unwelcome

appmux’s picture

appmux commented

Btw, there's an update available for the Unwelcome module, which now enables promoted content to show up on the home page when available. Now it works even better!

johannez’s picture

johannez commented

Hey Mark,

like Jennifer pointed out..create a new page (www.bigboots.nl/node/add/page) and then you can set this page as the front page under www.bigboots.nl/admin/config/system/site-information. Best would be to enter the node id there in the front page section.
You can then edit this page to your liking. If you don't do this, Drupal will just show you a listing of all content (nodes) that have been promoted to the front page under the publishing options for the node.

Don't hesitate to ask as Drupal is a complex system and it'll take a while to get the concepts. I'd recommend browsing the admin tool bar, when you are logged in as admin and explore the different sections. You should be able to find most documentation for that on drupal or google.

Have fun,
Johannes