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By phpgirl on
Sorry if this is a noob question but I'm completely new (days) to Drupal and am still trying to figure stuff out!
I want to create a front page, using standard Drupal Blocks, but it seems like if I don't publish anything to the front page I'm stuck with the "Welcome to your new Drupal website!" content.
Is there a way to get around this without creating a new node type?
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Use the panels module
I would suggest the panels module which you canuse to break the mai content area up into panels. Each panel can contain blocks, nodes and views. Then you can assign that panel as the front page.
Ugh
I created a new panel and, like the page/story nodes, it posts a heading, a "submitted by admin..." caption, and "teaser" in the center column...all things that I don't want. There doesn't seem like a way to get rid of this.
I pretty much want an empty 3-columned (stacked) page with header and footer that I can just add blocks too...I don't want any auto-generated stuff.
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you can create a page content type, then set this page to be the default front page in adminsiter -> site information
you can also investigate the frontpage.module
you can also use a custom page-front.tpl.php (more information on this method in the theme developers section of the hanbook.
You can also use the panels.module to create a panels. (as nevets explained) provided you want the front page to only contain blocks / panels
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Thanks nevets...I'll fiddle
Thanks nevets...I'll fiddle with that module and see what it can do.
VM, I did check out a bunch of those, but I was hoping I was missing something simple and that an additional module/node wouldn't be required...it seemed too easy to require it.
Thanks guys.
Just to make it clear
I've setup my home page exactly the way I want it, with all the blocks in place.
The problem is that there is auto-generated content that I don't want there. I don't need the page title, submitted by user/date, and teaser.
In order words I want to get rid of all of the divs, in the #main table, (title, tabs, node, title, submitted, taxonomy, content)
site settings
Most of what you want to remove can be found here:
admin -> site building -> themes -> configure*
that page will let you turn off post settings on the content types (so drupals content wont show "posted by 'so and so' on mm/dd/yy above every page) and also lets you chose wether title/mission/slogan etc should show for that theme.
*keep in mind that if you want to get rid of tabs, important things like that "configure" tab will no longer be avail to you (probably not what you had in mind right? A lot of the little things that irritate designers in the beginning about drupal tend to eventually be the things that get us through really sticky usability issues. But, if you absolutely must get rid of them, you'll have to read up on how to modify the page template of the theme you are using.
Also, I'm sure you've come across this'n already, but if you havent, check out:
admin -> site configuration -> site-information
since you are trying to turn that content off anyways its not a biggie, but my guess would be that you are doing 1 of 2 things here: either a) you've hard coded the key site info such as the site name & footer into your theme as text, or b) you've used images for all or part of that. from a usability standpoint, you'll eventually be much happier making edits to these areas via a simple admin tool (thats already provided to you no less!) than you will having to modify the physical files that drive your site, so you might want to consider taking advantage of what this page has to offier. I guess option c though would be you didn't do either & i just pointed you to another helpful screen you've been looking for :)
Hope this helps a bit!
-Chris
Whoops
Sorry Chris...I forgot to get back to this post.
I simply created a single-column panel and set it as my front page. That got rid of the generic drupal "startup" content screen without having had to generate any content for it.
It's been over a week since I posted this and I've learned tons, including the stuff you posted. I still have a lot to go, but your point of using the built-in admin toolery, vs hard-coding, is well taken. I've also turned off the tabs because they were a pain (ie tab width exceeding my actualy page width) but I almost immediately turned them on again when I realized what I was giving up, haha. Oh well...it really doesn't matter how it looks to the "admin" account anyway...
Thanks.