There are several methods in creating a custom home page in Drupal. Below are just some ways you can use in creating a new home page.

– With Node
– With Views
– With template file

With node
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This is the simpliest, but you can’t customize much with this method. To create a new homepage, you will need to create a content node page and then point the homepage path to the newly created node in the ‘Configuration’ page.

With Views
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This is to me the hardest. You might as well use the third method and create a new template file for the front page.

With Template File
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To create a new home page with template file. First, you will need to make a copy of your current theme’s ‘page.tlp.php‘ file located in your theme folder.
Next, rename the copied file to ‘page-front.tpl.php‘ for Drupal 6 and ‘page–front.tpl.php‘ for Drupal 7. Now, edit and customize the new template file. Drupal will automatically switch to this file.