Hi there. I checked the demonstration link which is given with your CCK Blocks module on drupal.org, but I fail to see what it is that I am supposed to look at. I see a site with something about sports and leadership and stuff, but what exactly is the implementation of your CCK Blocks I am supposed to witness there???

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dman commented

(I've not used, and never even heard of this module until now, but)
Clicking into that site, I immediately went to a content page : (I expected to find one under 'projekts') and yes: this page looks like a good example.

So firing up the DOM inspector ... cool! This makes sense.

Here we have one, large, complicated node definition which seems to have several content fields.
And the design/layout is done by splitting most of the fields into blocks, then re-assembling the blocks into a page. Sorta turning one node into its own set of panels.

It's a Drupal-way of building your page, and is actually a feature that several folk and modules (including my own) have tried before now. But this seems the general-case solution!
A great way of supporting complex layouts for node content, without letting the client mess it up with wysiwyg.

Perhaps a diagram of how this page was constructed would be good to have in the docs here :-)

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fokkezb commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Sound like a good documentation to me :) Listen, the module is just 68 lines of code. All it does is displaying any CCK field of the currently viewed node as a block somewhere instead (or next to, since last version) in the node content area.