Adding an image to the home page

Question

I'm using the Zen sub-theme. I don't want all the new stuff on the site showing on the home page so I'm editing page--front.tpl.php. Removed print render($page['content']). But now I want to add some static text and and image to my home page.

How do I go about doing this basic thing?

Answer 1

You can simply create a node, and put this node (eg. node/15) in the admin/config/system/site-information default frontpage field.

Otherwise you can also create a custom page with hook_menu() like this:

$items[path] = array(
    'title callback' => 'page title',
    'page callback' => 'page_callback',
    'access callback' => 'access_callback',
    'type' => MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM,
);

and in page_callback() you can return your custom theme template/function.

Or simply use some contributed modules like "Empty Page", "Front Page", "Empty Front Page" and others..