XF 2.2 Populating home page

[Alvin63]

Ok I am now on day 5 of setting up a forum from scratch . I now have a home page set up - ta dah! With not much on it.

I followed the article on here to set it up and populate it with some widgets - which I've done. But that's not what I want on the home page. I don't suppose it's as easy as designing a Word page and cutting and pasting! But would like a kind of page layout like a news page with photos and articles - and a scrolling box with latest features in across the page. Any idea where I can start?

For a start off, how can I make the page into two columns? Thank you.

 

[beerForo]

This might work for you:

Unmaintained - [EAE Add-ons] Thread preview widget

This add-on adds a widget that will display new threads, or threads with new posts, within an admin selected Page node. The list of threads are displayed in article format and can be set to be displayed above the Page node content, or below. The...

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[Alvin63]

Thank you I'll check that out. One other thought - if I had a web page design, could I link that as a front page?

 

[Alvin63]

Ok I am still struggling with the front page issue. I have one set up - with not much on it, it is linked to my home tab and it opens first when the web address is put in.

But - I have noticed that on a mobile website this isn't great. Because the forums tab isn't there - you have to tap on a menu to find forums which many people would miss and just see the home page. So I need a very good home page and presumably some way of adding info to check out the forum by tapping on the three bars at the top.

I get the impression that creating a home page with photos and articles yourself isn't that easy unless you;re an experienced coder - is that right? Having put so much work into creating the forum I don't want to mess up my install and am wary of using add-ons that may not get updated/supported.

So apart from adding widgets to the page, is there anyway I can write content and upload it to my xenforo install to make it into a kind of widget? And link it that way?