By Mangaforce on

Hi ppl,

Im looking at the best way to build a homepage.. am i right in thinking i have to build blocks for each piece of homepage i need ? and configure them all into "content"

I tried using page but it kept giving me a read more.. button which i didnt want.

a little confussed. how do you people build your homepages - pages

regards
manga

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cmckay commented

What type of homepage do you want to create a static one or a dynamic one? A static homepage (Content doesn't change regularly) is created using the normal page content type and then setting the front page to that pages url at admin>site information. If you want to create a dynamic front-page, use the views module and specify how you want the nodes displayed.

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bwv commented

Have a look at the panels module. With it you can assemble blocks of content and configure them to appear on various parts of the same page.
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Mangaforce commented

I kinda want both.. static area and dynamic area..

I still dont udnerstand what Views is.. the terminology of it just boggles my head.
will look into panel!

my site so far is just 3 block on front_page i really want the news block to be dynamic... e.g: update when i add new NEWS to a news page located elsewhere.. not figured that one out yet

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dasithds commented

I would suggest using panels and views together to build a dynamic frontpage..... also its ok if you dont still understand views... theres plenty of time to learn....http://drupal.org/node/109604 thats the link to the documentation....

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Mangaforce commented

thanks dasithds.

Ive only just managed to get a look at this.. and realised its for 5.x ive started out on drupal 6.x eek

any other suggestions

regards
manga

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cmckay commented

Hey Mangaforce, a view simply displays specified content that it grabs from your content database. For example this news page is a view http://www.myappleguide.com/news . Technically, the page itself does not exist, rather, when a news content is created, it is automatically displayed at that url. That makes it dynamic, the page depends on the news content created.
A normal page only changes if you manually change the data on it. A view can be displayed as a page (as in the example I gave) or as a block (eg. most recent comments).

So if the content on your homepage is going to be changing regularly like a blog - you want to use the views module. You can still display static content using views.

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