By emsbrooklyn on

Created a front page (page-front.tpl.php) and I need to pull specific articles (nodes) into an area on the front page from several different content types. And it needs to be more than a list (needs 'title', thumbnail and intro text [not 'teaser' text, but a new field]). Something like you might use in a View, but more complicated (I think).

I'm a Drupal newbie with limited programming skills (but strong CSS skills). I can't get my head around this problem.

Running Drupal 5.x
Page: page-front.tpl.php

What I want on the section of the front page:

SETUP
* Title of Node
* Intro Text (think teaser text) - separate field created in CCK so that the client can write specific copy to pull into these sections.
* Thumbnail Image (set up using imagecache module) nested into "Intro text" body
* Using taxonomy term to bring it into section

PROBLEMS
* Many different Content Types need to be brought into this section to create an overview of articles that the client wants to put on the home page
* The "Intro Text" field created in CCK is programmatically different for each content type (i.e. this field is not, like the 'title', shared across all content types

SOLUTIONS
* What is the simplest way to accomplish this goal? Can it be done with CCK, Views and Contemplate? Create a module? Create a custom block?

Need to be led to info, tutorials, etc.

Thanks,
Eric

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