On my site I've devised a way to layout stories on the front page by section-- thus avoiding the monolithic approach of the classic "weblog" layout. I call it the webzine format, as the format is quite familiar to traditional webzines.
After a long while, I finally started considering how to make this a more standard module.
Here's my design spec for: the Webzine Drupal Module.
It involves some minor changes to Xtemplate, and may need some changes to node and taxonomy as well, so I wanted to share with the group.
Jon
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Great, thanks for sharing,
Great, thanks for sharing, Jon.
Be aware that PHPTemplate is in core for the next release, and is in general the more widely used templating system. Also, modules shouldn't generally ever need changes to the theme layer if they are written correctly.
on themes...
Yes, thanks for the two tips. But keep in mind, the reason I need a new theme is that I needed to define a "headline" template. Were I to do it in the module, I don't think that would have been a good idea.
I also see that this is somewhat similar to the FrontPage module. I'll follow up with the group that worked on that.