Let me start by saying I am a complete noob when it comes to drupal so please do not flame me. I have searched the forums, watched hours of the video tutorials and gone through as much reading as I can and am just getting more confused as we move forward.
After Years of running my wifes site in Mambo/Joomla I was tired of it being compromised and now migrating to Drupal. I have everything installed and functioning as a out of the box installation should. I have gone through and added some modules that were recommended by the various tutorials and they seem fine. Now I am at the point to make the site look like my wife wants and I am jammed up here (if anyone has done work for a spouse you know what I am saying).
So her site has three content types. There are New, Headlines and Announcements. The hope was to assign each of these content types to a different block on the front page. A sample of her old site and how we want to do this can be found at
http://www.tdotballers.com/WEB/PLAG/
Now to achieve this I have read everything from using Modules like Panels, Views and a host of others.
What is easiest way to achieve this functionality? Any help is appreciated and you may have to dunb it down for a person coming from joomla. Currently I have the theme set to The Morning After (ProsePoint port)
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derrick, I feel your pain. I
derrick,
I feel your pain. I went through the same thing. Although I still consider myself a Drupal newbie, you have many options here (which in itself can contribute to some confusion).
Currently, I'm using the following approach:
-Create Block display in custom Views (http://drupal.org/project/views) to show the desired content.
-Depending on your theme, you may or may not need to create a new region in which to place your Block display from your View (http://mydrupalblog.lhmdesign.com/creating-custom-regions)
-Go into the Block section of your Admin menu and add the new Block display from your View into the newly created region.
Be sure to clear Site Cache after adding the new region. I hope this helps.
it Helped a ton, thank you.
it Helped a ton, thank you. I now have my headlines in the block I want. and am building other views for other blocks.
One question though as I plug away
in my main content section. How can I have it display a picture for the first story but then only show headline or smaller picture for rest. Am i better off editing the php to make this happen?
No you shouldn't have to
No you shouldn't have to directly edit the php file. Directly editing the php file should be kept to a minimum. You should be able to do this using Views again. I've found that Views are very powerful, even though I'm sure I haven't touched half of the functionality yet. I'm not sure exactly how since I haven't needed to do this. Maybe you can make two views, one for the first headline showing the image and the other for headlines without images. You could then style the views accordingly so that they don't look like different views in the output. There's probably a better way of doing this, but I don't know of one without digging deeper.
You can use - Node as Block
You can use -
Node as Block (module)
or
Views
or
Node By reference
or
Panels(last choice personally for me)
Chetan