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Most of the default Drupal Themes display a simple list of the last 10 entries with pagination if needed.

Some of my first custom front pages involved writing sql and laying out the results within the page-front.tpl. While this worked great and made it easy to control exactly what and where things appear.

But later on when the owner wanted mild changes it required digging back into a complex template file instead of just making alterations from within the Drupal Admin area.

I often have a lot of small bits of info I'd like recorded but can't write anything worthy of full entry for.

I considered creating a module to create a small entry type that is displayed randomly in a block with a link to a full page listing of these short entries.

Instead of doing this I created a content type (quick_tips) and set its workflow settings uncheck published as I do not want these entries considered as full pages.