By Fluence on

I'm trying to accomplish something that is very simple if I just edit the template directly, that is, add two images with some links below them to a specific part of the page.

But, I want to allow the users of the site to change the images, text, and links.

Is there an easy way to accomplish this using Drupal's system? I'm in effect asking several questions on how to use Drupal properly with this.

Basically, it's a very simple front page design:

-- LOGO | Banner -- {He
-- N A V B A R -- ader - already set}

Node 1/               Image 1/link     Image 2/link
Home page          Text w/ links     Text w/ links
{currently added        {both of these are currently divs with embedded
as content>>Node1}       < img> tags in my page-front.tpl.php file}

F O O T E R

If you extremely experienced Drupallers can help me figure out how to accomplish this simply, I'd really appreciate it. My current understanding is that I need to edit the template.php, define my own blocks, then call these blocks from page-front.tpl.php and position them. Am I on the right track?

On this same track, how do I best allow users to upload images via Drupal so that they can map to them inside of these blocks or whatever? I'm looking at the Img_Assist module along with TinyMCE and/or possibly Filebrowser.

I already have the front page separated via separate .tpl.php files, I just need to figure out how to allow users to edit the images and text using Drupal.

Thanks in advance

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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Fluence commented

Well, I figured this out but am leaving it in case someone else has this question.

In the "administrative -> settings -> posts"
section set posts to Unlimited for this last issue.

Now to get the style working properly...

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I should add that this is only for the front page. Basically, one of these two images and the text and links for both need to be editable.

I'm trying to just add the divs and images to the front page's node directly, but this breaks the page. The content is being split with a link to "read more" of the page like so:

"Posted in ... [read more]"

with a link to the full node printed in place of the rest of my content...

How would I disable this or change this? Any way via Drupal's administrative functions?
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