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By erikmarcus on
I've been using Drupal for a week, and have gotten a basic feel for it, but now I've hit a wall in designing my site.
I've got a three-column theme for my front page (Amadou); and I've created three types of content: blogs, podcasts, and vidcasts. I'd like my blog entries to go into the left column of my front page and my podcast/vidcast entries to go into the center column. I'd also like three separate pages dedicated to archiving my blog, my podcast, and my vidcast.
I've gotten it through my head that the intuitive solution doesn't work: I can't simply enter
Site building>blocks
and drag these three types of content into the appropriate columns of my front page. It appears block view only works for static content -- for instance, creating a recommended reading list.
From what I've read in the handbook, and the advice I've been given here, I apparently have two ways of achieving my desired front page layout and secondary page content. One way involves the Category module and the other way involves the Views module.
Unfortunately, I've installed 6.0 RC3, and neither of these two modules have yet been released for 6.0. Am I hosed? Or is there some other way I can achieve my desired front page layout and secondary pages?
Comments
First I question your use of
First I question your use of 6, as from what i read elsewhere its not ready for a production environment.
Second you talk of archiving your podcasts etc . Why ? I designed a drupal website for a group of people who wanted to do exactly the same thing, but again why?
If you want content to still be available then why archive it, your storage space is almost infinite? Why not leave it where it was? If you use Views ( which is not 6 compliant as yet) to display you podcasts you can simply have them fall off the current page set page limit to 1, 2,5 10, 100 node per page, with the page count increasing as time passes and it gets further back in the pages
As to side blocks as you say VIEWS, i use views to generate dynamic content in blocks
To me a basic Kit for drupal is Views CCK Contemplate, after that there are loads of excelent modules, but not many ready for 6, which may still have changes before release