By www.richardsprojects.co.uk on

I want to create another page like the front page that shows teasers of pages from that section.

How do I create a page that lists summaries of other pages, and how do I link a page to its summary page?

Thanks for your help.

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ultimateboy’s picture

ultimateboy commented

Richard,

Good question.

In drupal, as with any software platform or program, there is some need-to-know terminology. In this case, the word to know is 'view'. A view is basically a list of information. It can be formatted in basically whatever way you would like and contain basically any information available on your site.

A view is created via the views module. This might be enough for your needs. However, most likely you will also need to get and learn cck and content template.

Once you have experimented a bit, if you have any further questions, feel free to ask.

Enjoy!
--matt
http://www.monarch-digital.com

-- matt tucker

Drupalace-1’s picture

Drupalace-1 commented

If you want some general overview on how to create pages that list nodes (of which the front page is a special case), a good resource is at http://drupal.org/node/176252 .

I've got similar stuff on my site at
http://www.drupalace.com/blog_entry_understanding_node_list_pages_drupal...
http://www.drupalace.com/drupal_admin_manual/placing_content_pages

All pretty basic, though. And what the other poster said: Depending on what you want to do, Views may be the best solution. Should be plenty of Views info in the Drupal handbooks.

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www.richardsprojects.co.uk commented

Thanks UltimateBoy and Drupalace.

I'm starting to learn all the right words, but there are a lot of drupal words.

Richard Garside
www.richardsprojects.co.uk