I see I get some inadvertent traffic from people searching for how to create a testimonials page in Drupal. Since that's what people want, I'll be glad to tell you how! I'll assume you're somewhat familiar with Drupal 6 and web design, in general, and with the basic concept of installing modules. You'll need to have Drupal 6 Views and CCK installed for this one.

I'll first show you an example of a website I designed that makes use of a testimonials page, along with a block on every page which shows a random testimonial. Check out this website I designed for a Chicago lawyer: www.legacylaws.com and see the testimonial on the bottom left. It randomly displays a different testimonial on page load and links to a page which displays the full list of testimonials.

Here's a screenshot:

And here's a shot of the page which will display the full list of testimonials:

Let's look at the testimonial and see what it's made of. For CCK, we'll need the main quotation field, which we can just use the standard "Body" field, and we'll need the signature - the person who gave the testimonial. Pretty basic!

To create that content type, go to Content Management > Content Types > Add Content Type. Call it testimonials and fill in the fields for submission form settings, too. You can change "Body" to say "Testimonial," if you like.

Then, you'll add a new field, in the "manage fields" section. I called it, "Signed" (which makes sense after it's filled in: Signed: Tevi Hirschhorn). I made a simple text field. I allowed it to be multiple rows, since in my case, people wanted their title and location to appear below their name.

My testimonial content type is attached below as a txt file.

Now let's create the view to display the block and testimonials list page.

Go to Site building > Views > Add and create a new view called "Testimonials." Set the filter to Node: type = Testimonial, and Node: Published = Yes. Set the fields to display to Node: Body, and Content: Signed. Under Sort criteria, set it to Global: Random.

Now, add two displays, one for Block, and one for Page. Here's a screenshot of what we've just done:

In my block view, I overrode the default for "Use pager" and "Items to Display" to "No" and "1" respectively. In order to have my link to the page view on the bottom of the block, I added a "Footer" (and made it Full HTML) for my link.

In the page view, you'll create a path to the page. Make sure it's the same thing you wrote in for the footer link from your block view!

In the page view, I wanted to have a horizontal rule separating each testimonial. There are a number of ways I could have done this: create a custom theme file for this view; edit the css for this specific view, based on view id (a div is created for each row); or, I can insert custom HTML. I had an existing style for horizontal rules in my theme, so I rewrote the output of the signature field, which is the last field in my view to include the HTML. See the screenshot below:

Here's a great tip: you can rewrite the output of fields by either selecting "rewrite the output of this field" on the specific field, or by selecting "exclude from display" and using the field token elsewhere in your view. Pretty cool! If that made no sense, look at the screenshot and you'll see what I mean. Both the body field and signed field are available to use as tokens inside my custom HTML.

Now, you can put your block wherever you'd like in the block administration and testimonials will randomly display.

I've attached the view to the bottom of this post, as well.

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