I am very new to drupal, just few weeks maybe. But I am doing real progress esp. with the dudertown videocasts. But I want to build a website, not simply blog. Till now I know how to make blog like thing only and thats not I want.
Here is how I want the site to be, its some london's site I am trying to copy. That site is a bit too complex. I am doing a bit simpler. In the picture I have marked the things I am not able to do. See image
1. I want my front page's content(excluding left, rt sidebar) to have two columns. In other pages the regular content page is okay.
2. I want to make things like updates and and headlines on front page. How do I do that. Also how do I manage them?, like for instance can I simply write the page and update go directly to that or maybe even add a small photo for the update page. Maybe the scrolling as in the foto would help.
3. Since I am going to add a lot of pages how do I manage the navigations??? Do I have to manage all manually?
Here is what I have done till now. See image
I tweaked a website theme to work in drupal, as the dudertown video.
1. how do I repair the css in the sidebar, as the sidebar in original theme. I only put $left_sidebar or sth like that.
2. the column thing I talked earlier.
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Use the views module to
Use the views module to define the logic you talk about for organizing your content, it will allow you to create lists of content and all kinds of other sorted output based on a host of different selectable options example: you could create a list of article titles that are from one category but that are only authored by a specific user and have them sorted from oldest to newest. this is called a view, a view can be rendered to a block or page or just used as is. Views will give you the organized and sorted logic you need for displaying content how you wish.
To control the layout in a complex manner like you talk about with columns and such use the panels module, panelsblock module and jstools(there may be some dependents required but drupal will tell you). This will allow you to define complex layouts that you can even nest other layouts into giving and unlimited amount of "grids" to lay content into, you will also be able to define tabs.
Hope this isn't to confusing or badly worded, post back if you need further help.
hello there,
Many many thanks for the help, I till now haven't really worked out all of it, but I am trying.
I installed all the modules, but haven't worked on views module till now(found one lesson on views), still working on theme.
The panel module has worked out quite fine, but I am stuck in the css things, like putting the blocks in the right way. Actually spent quite a lot of time on that. I am not that good in css, one can even build a theme with css, rite. Well I just know how to tweak things. Actually I have quite a good theme, with all the css parameters defined. but how do you control csses' inside things like $sidebar-left. I tried changing mine css with the classes from the page source, but that was a hectic job and still couldn't get good result. So I had to create a different module and add the links instead of doing directly from the menu, it is not right rite.
I haven't loaded it on net yet. I don't have 24hrs net and very little time too.
Anyways here is what I have till now. See image