Custom front page
prasannah.ganeshan - September 29, 2009 - 06:35
I have situation where I need to create a website with the custom homepage/ front-page. I have found out different ways of customizing the front-page. But I require to add image scroller with javascript or flash. Is there a module which will help me get this thing done. The front-page is some what will look similar to http://www.islco.com/ this website. Not exactly though.
If anyone know a module which will let me do this. Please forward it to me.

i was able to manage mind by
i was able to manage mind by following here http://drupal.org/node/223440. hope this help...
will you be able to give me a
will you be able to give me a link of your site in action
-Prasannah
Using page-front.tpl.php you
Using page-front.tpl.php you can achieve this.If you created page-front.tpl.php in your theme folder then drupal will use that for front page alone and all remaining page executed vie page.tpl.php.
i have tried this and it's
i have tried this and it's working. my problem is not with having a individual frontpage. may be i my question was not clear.
my problem is i want a flash/java-script image slider on the front-page ("page-front.tpl.php") which should be able administer. the idea here is that i want let the admin to add modify images and also to add a cation to a image.
-Prasannah
http://drupal.org/project/fan
http://drupal.org/project/fancy_slide
http://drupal.org/project/slider
http://drupal.org/project/flashmaker
http://drupal.org/project/easySlider
Look at the above links or write your own code using jquery.
I will give these a
I will give these a try.
thanks
-Prasannah
A couple more solutions for
A couple more solutions for front page management:
1. Install the front page module (appropriately named)
or
2. Use the panels module, which is my personal fav. With panels you can create nice layouts, but you need to have a good variety of content, first. It does however, have a nice drag and drop interface.
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