By droolpal on

I would like a simple homepage with my custom theme that has the header (logo and menu), then a slideshow, then some title text, and then body content. In that order.

I have the header working properly, but I do not know what the best way to set up a homepage like this would be. Is this something I would use Views for?

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naheemsays commented

Panels is your friend

http://www.drupal.org/project/panels/

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droolpal commented

Yah! That looks promising! I will play with that now. But I am sure I will have more questions...

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droolpal commented

Now that I have installed it, I do not think this is what will help me. I have already created a theme that has the header set up as I want. I am not using any sidebar columns, and do not think any of the other layouts would work for me.

Maybe the real question is what is the best way to control homepage content so that it is

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header (done)
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#######
slideshow
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Header text
Body content
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footer (done)

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vm commented

two options:

create a page content type, and add it as the default front page in adminsiter -> site information

or investigate the frontpage.module in the downloads area.

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droolpal commented

Thank you, VeryMisunderstood.

The Front Page module is nice, and I may use it in the future, but has more complexity than I will use now.

So I created a "Homepage" content type, added a CCK Image field set to multiple values ("Slideshow Images"), and set up CCK Slideshow to use that field. I then went into the "Manage fields" tab, and set the weight for the "Slideshow Images" field to -6 and updated the content type. The title weight was grayed out and set to -5, and the body was grayed out and set to 0.

I thought this would have displayed in the order of:
slideshow (-6)
title (-5)
body (0)

but it does not. The title is always at the top! Why? How can I override this? If necessary, I would create another field for the "title", but I do not know how to turn off the display of the default title set to -5.

Interestingly if I set the slideshow weight > 0, the slideshow displays below the body as expected.

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vm commented

you can hide the title see: http://drupal.org/node/138910
users will still have to fill it out but it can be hidden.

body is moveable because body can actually be removed from a content type by leaving the body label empty. A title however is necessary, though the label can be changed.

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droolpal commented

So there is no way to move the default required title via weight?

Too bad, there should be an override for that, I'll see about removing it and setting up another field in the mean time.

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droolpal commented

So I hid the title with the method in the comments allowing the user to hide the title with double underscores. I have created a new field to act as the title but further down the page.

How do I get the content of this new title wrapped in an H2 tag?

The saga continues at this new thread:
http://drupal.org/node/203485