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Thu, 2010-07-22 19:35 — muthuraj

Hi Guys,

I am new to drupal and i need to develop one site using drupal, i dont know how to create a front pages using drupal, for example in need to create home page and all the other inner pages, as of now i have copied bluemarine theme and renamed and enabled it, and i have edited page.tpl.php file to my code but the result is i am seeing the same design for the admin pages also, so can anyone help me to create home page and all the inner pages and the custom header and footer blocks.

I would be thankfull if some could help me to solve this issue.

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Thu, 2010-07-22 21:05 — sidharth_k
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Use page-front.tpl.php

Use page-front.tpl.php for making a template file for the Drupal front page.

You can also check out http://drupal.org/node/190815#template-suggestions

Thanks,

Sidharth
Head Instructor & CEO
NoParrots.com Drupal Training
www.noparrots.com

Thu, 2010-07-22 22:27 — muthuraj
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Hi Sidharth, Many thanks for

Hi Sidharth,

Many thanks for your reply, i have created new page-front.tpl.php file in my default theme but i dont know how to call that page, have to specify anything like node/1 in the url.

Thanks,
Muthuraj

Fri, 2010-07-23 02:02 — sidharth_k
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The front page

The front page url is specified in the configuration section in "Site Information".

It is usually set to just /node but you can set it to anything you want.