I'm new to drupal and trying to get the hang of things like Views and content blocks and such, so I'm hoping you can give me some guidance about the best way to handle my situation. My frontpagefront page needs to look like thisthe following:
The Headerheader, Navigationnavigation, and white Contentcontent areas are part of my page.tpl.php, and show up on all pages.
I'm assuming I can power the blue Image Carousel by creating a content type that contains an image and caption, then create a Viewview that pulls those images out of the database.
Below that are 3 areas which contain different stuff.
- is an image that is a link. The image and link need to be controllable by the admin.
- is a facebook social plugin. I'm assuming I can just create a content block and paste the html from Facebook into that and assign that block to show up on the frontpage... somehow.
- is another, smaller, image carousel, but will most likely use a different content type (assuming I should be using content types for this at all).
"1" is an image that is a link. The image and link need to be controllable by the admin. "2" is a Facebook social plugin. I'm assuming I can just create a content block and paste the HTML from Facebook into that and assign that block to show up on the front page, somehow. "3" is another, smaller, image carousel, but will most likely use a different content type (assuming I should be using content types for this at all).
What is the best way to put this page together? It
It doesn't need to be completely flexible from the admin screens,. I'm okOK with building a front page template.
How would you build this page? I'm getting to the point where I -can-can get things to work, but I don't think I'm doing them in the most efficient and/or drupal-yDrupalish way.
