How to NOT show most items on the frontpage?

By Peter20ghz on 10 Mar 2010 at 12:15 UTC

Hello to all of you.
This is my first post here and i will try to make my self as clear as possible.
I have been doing web sites for about 15 years now, mainly as a hobby, but lately ive gotten paid for my work.
Last i did a static HTML site to a beauty saloon, but after realizing that they need to change the content, texts, prices, campaigns etc quite often, that web site solution wasnt good for them. I have done a lot of forums in my days, some webshops like OsCommerce, Prestashop and so on as well, so installing Drupal was not hard at all. I have allso mannaged to recreate the design from the static HTML site to the Drupal site.
But here is where it gets tricky. Since their web is mainly a informative website, telling customers about services, prices, opening hours and so on, they don't want all this unnecessary items/blocks like "log in, sign up, etc. etc,"
I want to make a site with just a plain menu " home, page 1, page2, page3, page4, page5, contact "
There shall also not be any way where visitors can post on the site.
This is a example of a site that has this kinda front http://www.barashdesign.ca/ (found at showcase site).

So, how can i achive this? what ever i do i still have this "log in" showing
And if i am loged out (as a customer) i cant see no menu at all, just the log in block, but menu must be vissible all time.

I hope you guys understand what i mean.
Ive been trying to fiddle with this for a while now but just cant seem to work it out.

All help, pointers, etc is most wellcome.

Thanks for your time.

best regards
Peter

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tdimg commented 10 March 2010 at 12:47

But here is where it gets tricky. Since their web is mainly a informative website, telling customers about services, prices, opening hours and so on, they don't want all this unnecessary items/blocks like "log in, sign up, etc. etc,"

I want to make a site with just a plain menu " home, page 1, page2, page3, page4, page5, contact "

Sounds like Drupal is way too much for your needs. Of course, you can use Drupal for this but other CMS might be better, e.g. Wordpress or Concrete5.

With Drupal, you can use and create different content types to create content (or nodes in Drupal language). The default content types are Story and Page. Story can serve as a blog or news site while Page content is your static content. You can change the settings, e.g. allowing comments and displaying date/author. For your contact needs you can use the contact module in core (the menu item needs to be activated in Navigation and probably moved to another menu, primary links for example)

While creating new content you can also create a menu item for the new content at the same time, I'd suggest you put these menu items in primary links (check the garland theme of how to include the primary links in your theme). If not, then use Site Building > Menus

Blocks can be activated and rearranged in Site Building > Blocks

You can also deactivate registration of users just in case in User Management > User Settings

And setting of the front page happens in Site configuration > Site information

And if i am loged out (as a customer) i cant see no menu at all, just the log in block, but menu must be vissible all time.

That shouldn't be the case except when you didn't give content access permission, check that in User management > Permissions

Also, to make admin things easier, I'd suggest you get the Admin menu module.

Thanks, this was exactly the

Peter20ghz commented 10 March 2010 at 14:08

Thanks, this was exactly the kind of answer i was hoping for.

You might be right about Drupal is to much for their needs, but i just wanted a system where they them self can go in and change, add, edit the content.
I have been playing around with wordpress but never managed to get friendly with it, specially come to fix design as i want it.
The Block part ive figured out already while fixing the design, (needed to remove and move some to look right)
But the other settings and the menu management i will look into. hopefully i will come close to the original soon.

I will most likely come back with more questions along the way.

Thanx a lot for your time.

Best regards
Peter

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sivarani commented 24 March 2010 at 09:51

I too have same problem. I want to fix Frontpage according to my design (for website) . But in block the theme design is there but i don't need that, i want different modules and nodes to display in different places in frontpage. Can any one help for this..

Thanks

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tdimg commented 24 March 2010 at 11:06

this is not at all the same problem. please open a new forum topic for this for maximum exposure. Fee free to contact me (see signature - I do know a couple of different ways achieve this) if you don't get any responses.