Question

To start, I am a beginner in drupal, so any advice helps me out a lot.

My problem:

I am interning for a village hall and they want me to recreate their website for them using drupal. So far I have created a front page with a drop-down menu, slideshow, and quicktabs. What I want to do is create four menu buttons separate from the current drop-down (business, residential, government, visitors), and when someone clicks on them it takes them to the specific page, that has the same layout but different images on the slideshow and menu items on the drop-down.

For example, the landing page would be the default of business. So the slideshow, drop-down menu, and quicktabs would have things related to business. If someone clicked on residents, it would take them to the residents sections with the same layout, but different images in the slideshow, different items to click in the drop-down menu, and different tabs in the quicktab.

I have tried using views to do this, but I keep getting the feeling that this is not what I want. My idea was to manipulate the page.tpl.php, but then again I could be heading in the completely wrong direction.

Thanks for you help!!

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Answer 1

I know this question is “answered” already, but I think I ran into a similar problem you ran into. The way that I fixed this was to manipulate the php page.tpl.php page and front-page.tpl.php. You can then customize the pages to your liking. If you google austin texas, you can see a website that did something to what you’re looking for.

Cheers!