By rafaeldwan on

Maybe this is a dense question, but how do I get my Drupal site's main page to have a bit of non-node normal-old-web stuff at its top, before news updates and blog entries and other drupally things? drupal.org's front page is a perfect example of what I want to do: just some introductory pix, text, links sticky at the top.

An answer more detailed than "use module x" would be super!

Thanks,
-Rafael

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Street-1’s picture

Street-1 commented

Check out the whitejazz theme. I think that should help. Also, the front page module may or may not be of us to you.

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nevets commented

The panel module would be something else to check out. It allows you to break a page into areas placing, views, blocks and nodes as needed. You can then assign the the panel as the front page.

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vm commented

Your front page can also be customized with "regions" . Regions in a theme are where blocks can be placed. see: http://drupal.org/node/29139
& http://drupal.org/node/65064

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paul-c commented

Here's a solution I use, found elsewhere on the drupal.org site some time ago.

1. Set the information you want displayed at the top of the site's front page in the "Mission" field in the site information settings page (http://yoursite/admin/settings/site-information). Just use standard HTML to format the content how you'd like to look.

2. Then make sure you have the necessary line in your template file (in my case, page.tpl.php) to print the mission statement

print $mission;

Position it before the print $content; statement, or where ever is appropriate.

3. Finally, remember to turn on the "Enable Mission statement" setting in the themes admin section.

And that should be it.

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rafaeldwan commented

Paul -c: This seems like exactly what I was looking for! I'll try it out and let you know. Thanks to all for the replies.

-Rafael
http://mediaisland.org

rafaeldwan’s picture

rafaeldwan commented

i said i'd let you know and I never did, but yeah - sticking html in the mission statement did exactly what I wanted. thanks for the suggestion.

-Rafael
http://mediaisland.org

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sepeck commented

http://drupal.org/node/27367

The front page of Drupal.org is a fairly standard use of Drupal with a minor addition. The orange box is the standard mission statement (Administer >> Site configuration >> Site information). The rotating image to the left is a php script that displays a banner image from a directory. The green download box is also part of the theme template. The remaining blocks in blue are standard blocks. The grey box is a standard forum post from the news and announcements section, generally with coments disabled, Promoted to front page, and Sticky at top of lists set.

The Drupal.org front page is about as standard Drupal as you can get. :)

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