By Boua on

I've been reading using drupal and I found a lot of things that help me with my website but what I have not found was how to create a homepage simular to many websites online. Here is just and example http://www.londonnet.co.uk/ or http://www.thaiportal.nl/

I really want my website to have such great looking homepage with different blocks of content. How do you do this? Is there any book that can help me? I don't want to become a php or css expert, I'm learning some css, I'm reading books on drupal, I just want to build good looking websites using the tools that are out there.

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

I would suggest looking at panels for the layout and views for the various lists.

shadcn’s picture

shadcn commented

Yeah panel to create the blocks area.. view to pull in the content.. you might need to learn some php to theme some tpl.php page for views if you want customized block content..

ask4prasath’s picture

ask4prasath commented

You can copy the page.tpl.php file and make new file named page.front.tpl.php file
then in the page.front.tpl.php file you can remove the unwanted blocks
if u want to add a new block means create a mini panel and place it in that page

feel free to mail me ask4prasath@gmail.com

yoeld’s picture

yoeld commented

I don't use the panel, but rather regions.

I recommend you to create a few additional regions in your info file. Then the created blocks can be easily layed out via your tpl.php (for example a dedicated home page page-front.tpl.php)

shadcn’s picture

shadcn commented

Panel is more flexible than using regions. and its easier to create block-like structure without too much css. but it all depends with which tools you are more comfortable with. i started with regions too. until i found panel..

yoeld’s picture

yoeld commented

Thanks for your advice. But I read somewhere that panel is quite resource intensive. Do you agree that there is a performance issue with this heavy module?

Boua’s picture

Boua commented

Thank you all for your suggestions I will see for myself what works best.