By gkarasiewicz on

I have created a block for my front page, and i have turned it on in the content section only on the front page, however I still get the "Welcome to your new Drupal website!" loading above it. How can i turn that off so it's just my block at the very top of the front page?

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tm commented

what else are you planning for your front page? you can either promote a node to front page, and/or designate something other than "node" as your default front page in the site information admin page.

there are actually other options, but those are the "quickies"

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gkarasiewicz commented

My site is just a personal site, so what I want is just a hello and my picture at the top of the front page and then to show my updates and such below. www.smalltowncub.com will let you see what i have so far. The section i have right now with my photo and such in it is a block. I tried to post a blog page and a page to the front however they were summarized and so did not suit the purpose.

And since Drupal is basically new to me i'm kind of clueless about how to go about this. I hope this all make sense.

Thanks for the help!

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tm commented

since you are not sure what direction you are going yet, one possibility is to put your hello/welcome statement into the mission statement, which only shows on the front page anyway.

another is to create one new "hello world" page, insert a teaser break at the end so it shows the whole thing, and be sure it is promoted to the front page. not sure if the "sticky at top" option is still available. you can unpublish. demote, or delete it later.

lots of options; take your time!

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gkarasiewicz commented

Will that allow me to have an image in it?

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tm commented

have not tried that! (just tried it; it works!)

the mission statement uses standard html. the image in question needs to be accessible, probably in the /files folder (makes upgrades simpler).

just remembered; some theme's mission statements use different styles that may not meet your requirements. forgot about that.

btw, silverwing's method works, too, but i am not into v6 theming yet so i cannot advise there.

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gkarasiewicz commented

Ya i saw silverwings but i'm not overly comfortable in editing the source just yet. So i will stick with this. It work out well. Only issue is I get bar across the top before the post but i think that may be just the css and i can figure that part out. I hope lol

Thank you very much for the help.

I posted another question earlier about making certain blog posts only visible to people with certain roles, would you know anything about this? You could turn out to be my little drupal angel if you did.

If not that's okay too.

Thanks

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tm commented

i think you will have a few thousand "drupal angels," actually...

regarding the node access, you should monitor the user access/authentication area of the module downloads. which one you use depends on the number and how you want to go about limiting access to nodes. v6 is still rather new, and a lot of the modules have not caught up, yet.

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gkarasiewicz commented

Ya basically i'm looking for an option when i've written a post to say which roles can or can not see it. As, well, i will post things i don't want my family to see or read. lol

But i do thank ya for your help.

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silverwing commented

you should be able to create a page-front.tpl.php

copy the page.tpl.php, rename it, and add a region to it, deleting the call to print $content

~silverwing

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gkarasiewicz commented

Okay well after trying the other method and not being happy with it i'm going to take on this challenge.

Okay so what do you mean create a region? And I can just delete the $content section and all will be fine?

Because as you can see what's on my home page now it basically just want that to show up but not being in a mission statement section.

Thanks

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silverwing commented

I'm assuming a few things.

1. You have created a page-front.tpl.php file in your theme.
2. The "Hello Yall" block is what you want to show up on your front page.
3. You want the sidebar there.

Then you can delete the $content from the page-front.tpl.php file.

~silverwing - like I said, that's what I've done on my showcaseCMS site

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Isaacheng commented

Hi Silverlight,

I had been following your comments with great interest.

From what I understand, the front-page can be different in look and feel from all the other pages by just specifying the page-front.tpl.php.

From http://drupal.org/node/190815, it says:

"The front page can be set through "Administrator > Site configuration > Site information". Anything set there will trigger the suggestion of "page-front.tpl.php" for it."

Question: Thus instead i replace the default '/node/' with 'page-front.tpl.php'?

..........

What i hope to do is to have a front page that runs a swf file, tells some stories. There will not be any headers, mission statements or slogans. Not even navigation bars. Just some pictures presented in sequence and choices available to the user for clicking.

Question: Will this be possible using that page-front.tpl.php method?

.........

Thank you.

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silverwing commented

if you use the "Administrator > Site configuration > Site information" way you are still using the basic page.tpl.php. So by using a page-front.tpl.php you have greater control over what is presented on that page. So if you are able to add things to the page-front.tpl.php you can.

you should also search here for 'splash' pages or flash front page.

You don't have to set the page in Admin - site configure - site information if you're using a page-front.tpl.php. It'll be automagically detected.

~silverwing

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Isaacheng commented

Thanks

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Isaacheng commented

Hi Silverwing,

What is the best way to put a flash node in the page-front.tpl.php?....for version 6.1

http://drupal.org/project/front's advice is more relevant to version 5.x

for version 6.1, i used the flash node as advised and tie it to front-page using the publishing option: promoted to front-page. It does not seem to work. Is there a way to tie the flash node to the front-page?

Thanks

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silverwing commented

I don't use Flash on my sites and I haven't used 6.1 yet (except for testing).

You may want to either check the issue queue for that module you mentioned or start a new thread to get some fresher eyes on the topic.

~silverwing

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Isaacheng commented

ok...thks