i need to build a front page that's highly customized, and consists mostly of lists of articles from various categories in different boxes.

in order to have full control over the front page, i have created page-front.tpl.php. i am now considering using Insert Views to embed various views where i want them on that page.

but i just don't understand how to do it. just putting the tag in the page-front.tpl.php template does nothing but print out that tag as text: [view:Whats_New=1]

as far as i understand it, the module is installed correctly... i'm just need to do something with it that requires deeper knowledge of this system than i currently have.

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nevets’s picture

An easier approach (at least to me). Use the panels 2 module to create panel (you can later assign that as the front page. You can chose your basic layout and then add one or more views (and more) to each panel.