Review : Drupal 6 Views Or Advanced FrontPage Module?

Exploring Drupal and all of the wonderful modules, does make things exciting. Although it is not always easy to find what you want without a little experimentation. Such was the case when it came to the template I had settled on for my site.

Since the theme is essentially a new - music type theme, I wanted to maintain that look, yet keeping it super simple. I had already installed the Advanced Frontpage module on one of my Drupal 6 sites, it was filled with static text.

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But this was not the look I was really after, sure it worked great for SEO purposes if that is what your after, never changing yet to a visitor in my opinion that looks boring. You may have written lots of new content, if it's buried within the site they may never find it.

Sure they might just dig deeper into the site, if they are a regular visitor, yet most people only have at most a 30 second attention span as they scan for something new.

I had searched for some clear cut advice on the advanced frontpage module and I know it is still out there someplace. I just felt there had to be something easier that would give me the look I wanted without having to resort to php code.

My searching did turn up some other alternatives, usually buried deep within the comments but everything kept pointing back to the Drupal 6 views module. I had previously downloaded the views module and had played with it a little on the local MAMP test site, I never really got anywhere, my fault for not sticking with it.

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