D6: a homepage with only blocks?

Question

the homepage of the design im currently converting in to a drupal site has 6 equally sized blocks of content (im not using the drupal term "blocks" here), showing a tagcloud, a list of the last 5 published titles, a delicious tagcloud, a "what is this site about" area etc.

my question is: is it possible / acceptable / standard practise to output only "blocks" and no "page" on the homepage, using Views? id assume a "page" would be the "main content area" of the homepage but since there isnt such an area im thinking of going just with blocks.

how does that sound?

Answer 1

I think the panels module may do what you are looking for here. Panels 3 is just out and looks like it can do just what you want.

Answer 2

Using two definitions for 'blocks' doesn't help you here. Page content, a view for instance, or a "what's the site about page" can still be page content if it's small and fits into a grid.

Answer 3

You have a choice of either using the panels module or of defining your own home page template by creating a page-front.tpl.php within your theme. Within the page-front.tpl.php you could specify in the markup the regions you want, defined in your .info theme file. In this case your page-front.tpl.php would contain 6 regions and you could simply then assign blocks to those regions within the adminstration area of Drupal.