By Bluemax86 on

Excuse the noob, but what I would like to do is have a plain simple static page as my home page. No comments, no discussions, no threads, just a plain page with some text. I do not want this page listed anywhere else. Currently I added some text to the "page" content type, but when I click on my "comments" link it appears on the list along with all the "story" content type.

How do I create a simple statis home page. Thank you in advance.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

you can create a static page, then set its url as your home page, then disable all other blocks/menus on your current homepage, are you using 6.1 or 5.x? in 5.x front_page module can do that too.

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Bluemax86 commented

didn't explain correctly, sorry. I still want all the menus and navigation on my home page, the problem is that it also gets displayed on the page that lists all the posts as a table entry. That page has a table with headings like Type, Post, Author, Replies, Updated.

I am using Drupal 6.1

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gareth_w commented

...create a new content type of front page to hold only this
...put the code directly into your template/theme
...put a region into your theme and configure a block to show in that region containing only the front page code
...use the front page module

and doubtless many more. I'm sure one of those fits the bill.

Gareth

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dman commented

are you talking about the content admin page?
the place where you list all pages on the site for admin purposes?
that only you can see?
that you can filter by content type if you want?

or have you got some other view where it's listed?

.dan.
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.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards

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Bluemax86 commented

thanks for the suggestions, I'll try some see if they work.

In answer to dan, I am talking about the site that I am trying to build, not Drupal's admin page. It would be the pages that visitors to my site (if I get any) would see.

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get14free commented

hi there Bluemax86.

i am also looking to do the same thing.

only 2 ways i can think around the problem..

1. create a plain html page and link that to the drupal site.

so you would have it like this...
www.yoursite.com/drupal/index.php
and also
www.yoursite.com/index.html

2. edit the drupal site to post specific content to the home page.

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this here is explanation...
http://drupal.org/node/123945

and this...
"Drupal does this easily and quickly: if you want a node (Drupal-speak for "weblog entry on steroids", because you can have many types of content with different permissions settings for each) to appear at the top of the page, you simply check the "Promoted to front page" check box and check the "Static on front page" check box. That way, the date that the item was published on is maintained, and there is no template code (PHP or otherwise) to learn. In other words, it is something that is easy for non-technical people to do, so they can focus on the design and content of their site."