Creating a portal frontpage

Friday 25 March 2005 10:45:24 am

Hi Daniel,

If you want to have a really flexible homepage you could do the following:

1. Create a new toolbar, for example: homepage_middle;

2. Create a template pagelayout_home.tpl with the following override:

[pagelayout_home]
Source=pagelayout.tpl
MatchFile=pagelayout_home.tpl
Subdir=templates
Match[node]=2

3. Insert the toolbar in the middle column of this page:

  {tool_bar name=homepage_middle view=full}

instead of

{$module_result.content}

4. Use the node_list toolbar item (full) to add blocks of latest items to your homepage. You can also create new toolbar items, like two-column articles, announcements, etc.

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Sunday 27 March 2005 9:45:49 am

Hi Neil,

You can create the toolbar for the homepage by adding the following line to the override file toolbar.ini.append.php:

[Toolbar]
AvailableToolBarArray[]=homepage_middle

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