By harrvester on

Every time I add content to my Drupal site I have the option to post it on my front page.

The problem is that I want my front page less dynamically. Let's say that I want something like http://drupal.org/ menu up, logo - search box, and the content divided in 3 columns (Why Choose Drupal?, Sites Made with Drupal .. ) that will remain the same.

This sounds more like creating Blocks and edit them with text and images. I don't think that creating custom content and then 'Promoted to front page' will be a solution.

How exactly should I do this ? How can I add images into blocks ? Can I add an article or other custom content into blocks ?
If I add only blocks I get the message "No front page content has been created yet.". How can I delete that ?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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geekglue’s picture

geekglue commented

"Promoted to front page" is one of those features that are handy if appropriate for your site and can be ignored if it isn't.

You can add images to Blocks. How you do this will depend on what options you've chosen for adding images throughout your site.

Regarding your front page take a look at Panels this may be exactly what you need : http://drupal.org/project/panels

duckzland’s picture

duckzland commented

normally people use these solutions for front page :

layouting can be used with these solutions:
1. panels or
2. custom page--front.tpl.php or
3. custom "layout" ,if using context + delta + omega theme

Then to fill out the content with blocks normally people uses :
1. views to create the blocks or
2. create "block" from drupal block configuration page or
3. add node into a block (node block module) or
4. mini panels (if panel is used).... and more

"No front page content has been created yet." can be removed by custom theme coding such as :


// this goes to page.tpl.php

if (!$is_front) {
   print render($content);
}

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harrvester’s picture

harrvester commented

is there a wrong way to do this ?
If I can do exactly the same thing with views and "block" from Drupal block configuration page, What should I use ?

Is there any difference between those ? SEO maybe?

geekglue’s picture

geekglue commented

In some cases there will be a clear benefit to using views or blocks to achieve a certain objective. In other cases it's an each way better and then you would probably choose whichever you are more comfortable with. I would be surprised if either has an SEO advantage to either.

duckzland’s picture

duckzland commented

difference between results can vary according to different situations. most of the time is about performance.

eg. hard coding vs views
if your hard coding code is bad then it will effect performance eg. bad sql query or bad code that doesnt scale
in other hand if your hard coding is efficient and good, in some cases it will out perform views in term of performance.

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