By Mlinka on

I am currently using drupal 4.7rc4, PHPTemplate system. I want to produce a website that looks like this:

first pic: http://i2.tinypic.com/wtsu9t.png

the first pic is the vision of my index page. every box will be a category of its own. In every box I want to show the latest two articles from the categoryr. When article is clicked, everything except head, box1 and box2, box 9, box10 and footer content will change (boxes: 3,4,5,6,7,8 from the first picture I've linked). Instead of those boxes I want to show the body of the article which was clicked and special article boxes (a new box on the right on the second pic). The special article box will be different for every category. ( the box on the mid right on the second pic).

second pic: http://i3.tinypic.com/wtswgz.png

What is the easiest way to do this? I am not a great programmer but I can handle a bit of php. If you want more detailed descriptions I can post more picture examples. Pls help.

Tnx in advance and sorry for bad english.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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robbt commented

Well with PHPtemplate you could create each of the boxes as regions?
And then you could make each of them a block, and then you could determine whether to show the block based upon PHP or just based upon being only visible on the front page.

Now how to create the custom content area in the middle would be less easy.
I think that if you just made it the content and had the front page have no main content, and then unhid them it might work.
I just thought I would try and help but I really don't know the best answer.

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Mlinka commented

For trying to help me at least... I think this problem is difficult to solve. But I've seen it on other drupal pages and I know it's possible.
Help anyone else?