Front page Featured Section

I have a website where users register their projects for a certain event. I'd like to highlight certain projects开发者_高级运维 on certain days on the front page.

What's the easiest way to add a "Featured Section" that accomplishes this? I know I can go through and make the post sticky but that seems tedious. Is it possible to use Views to do this or is there some other module available?

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As long as the 'certain days' part of that is a manual process, this sounds like a perfect fit for the Nodequeue module, which integrates very nicely with views (and even automatically creates one for each separate queue). So, in your example, you might create a Nodequeue called 'Featured Section', that accepts nodes of a certain type, and then you can quickly add content to that. A view on the home page would pull in only nodes in that queue.

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Modules for events: Views (for displaying in front page) + CCK (for featured and date fields) + calendar (for showing events as calendar (page or block))

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You could use Views to do this, and add a CCK field (or taxonomy if you like) to flag a node as 'Featured'.