By spytim on

OK, experienced developer but drupal newbie here.

I am buidling a site that (like most sites do) require different types of content to be displayed on the homepage. Now, for 2 days I have sat and watched tutorials, read blogs, read the drupal API docs and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get content A displaying nicely inside box A and content B displaying along side it in box B.

here is what the side should look like so you know what I mean:

this is my own development version of the site, not the finished drupal version, but they look identical - http://redsundigital.com/newsite/

now what i want is to

1) create content -> content type NEWS -> content goes nicely into the news box

2) create content -> content type GIGS -> content goes nicely into the GIGS box

it shouldn't be that hard, surely? what am i missing??

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

Comments

MeInc’s picture

MeInc commented

Views will allow you to create a block of a certain content type and much more. http://drupal.org/project/views

ludo1960’s picture

ludo1960 commented

Yeah views is the way to go, have a wee look at the panels module http://drupal.org/project/panels might even make the job easier!

r0bm1lls’s picture

r0bm1lls commented

... by the way. How are you themeing the site (if I might ask). Very nice clean layout.

Rob

ifairbairn’s picture

ifairbairn commented

Agree completely with advice you have had already "views" is way to go (it is not the most downloaded module for nothing). In addition, a much ignored, but very useful module for such use-cases is "nodequeue". Works with "views" nicely and what it will do is allow you (or any admin) complete control over which news and gig items go into those blocks (with a simple click of a link you add nodes to the queue - and remove as desired) and, moreover, you control the order in which they are displayed:

http://drupal.org/project/nodequeue

spytim’s picture

spytim commented

Thanks for all the advice guys. I have used 'views' as suggested and it has changed my life!!

Rob, thanks for the kind words about my layout. I built the theme myself. I always hand code my sites as the first step in my workflow, before taking them into any kind of cms.

Cheers