By e-boyz on

In MothersClick website ( http://www.mothersclick.com ), in your profile you can directly write a blog post, a question, a post review or a classified, so there's no need to click on "create content", and then on the content that you want. In this website there are four blocks in which you can write directly a node. How could this be done?

Thanks!

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wolfraem commented

One thing drupal is not built for is heavy deviation from the standard "this is my node region, this is my extra content region," design. It will take heavy customization, but you could build a set of custom blocks and assign them to custom regions (think 'leftsidebar', 'rightsidebar', etc.). Using your style.css you can set the style of each individual region (so they don't look like normal blocks).

I used this technique with a campaign website I worked on, http://www.votesnow.com , although because of the base theme my team chose there has been loads of problems with lining up the content [stay away from themes built in tables :) ]. The front page used four block regions custom to the theme, topleft topright bottomleft bottomright, and then blocks and videos and such were placed in them in the admin/build/blocks menu like normal.

The only difficult part would be writing the php to build the blocks for your submit regions, but if you can do that it shouldn't be too hard, just frustrating :)