By NeilMcEvoy on

One thing I like about Joomla etc. is that out the box they have template structure for a 'magazine/newspaper style' structured home page. Obviously you'll know what I mean, check any online newspaper etc., one of my favourites is Press Gazette.

Thoughts on how best to achieve this?

I'm thinking e-publish would be best for this, but currently I think it has bugs on 4.7, and I was also wondering if there are other approaches to consider?

Many thanks, Neil.

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yelvington commented

... http://www.theonion.com/content/ ?

I don't know how the Onion did it, but you can work wonders with blocks, phptemplate, and the front_page module.

See http://new.savannahnow.com/.

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NeilMcEvoy commented

technically incorrect yelvington, I can't work magic with these things, although I'm sure many others can. Making 5 pints of lager disappear fairly quickly is the limit of my magic... :-)

I like e-publish because non technical folks like me can do it, but yes I like the onion and savannah so that is the type of thing. Is therefore available as a technical spec somewhere, so I can just point technical folks to it and ask them to implement for me?

many thanks,

Neil.

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yelvington commented

Dive in, Neil! Be not afraid; AgentRickard -- an English major who taught English as a grad student -- figured out how to build the Savannah pages using blocks. Site producers in Savannah update blocks using Drupal's normal blog administrative mechanism. The page templates paint the correct blocks on the pages. There's quite a bit of logic in the templates as a result.

There's not a simple howto document because it's a bit beyond the normal boundaries for most Drupal installs. You might start by pointing your tech guys at the phptemplate manual. If they get excited, you're in clover ... if they don't, you're going to feel like you're pushing water uphill with a pencil.