Drupal Articles » Drupal home page creation techniques » Methods of creating Drupal home pages » Custom/dynamic front page using CCK, Views, Panels, and (optionally) Nodequeue. » Making a View, sorted by Node Queue
Next comes the View that is ordered according to the Node Queue. You can make your own View and add the Node Queue "Filter" and "Sorting" options, or you can use the default nodequeue View that is generated for each nodequeue as a starting template to customize. Go to admin/build/views and look down in the "Default Views" area for a View called "nodequeue_1". Click the Add link to the far right and you'll call up a Views page containing the default options for that View. Change the name some something else (e.g. home_articles), uncheck Provide Page View. Scroll down to the Block options - ensure List View is selected, remove the title, set the # to 4, and uncheck More link. Next add the needed fields from your Article content type (e.g. at least the teaser-image, or other fields if you decide to make those as text/images/css). For Filters, add Node: Published (set to yes), and Node: Type (set to Article). When you're finished, save the View.
