Add View To page.tpl I hope that you could help me out with this. After much time ive finally managed to work out how to takeover the space that my breadcrumb was taking up. With this bit of space i thought about adding a banner in there or a welcome message. I dont want my site to look 'tatty' so the banner idea was soon forgotten. A welcome message would be nice but it will be going through all my site and im sure that folks will get a bit sick of it.

I was hoping to add a View of random quotes in there. You can see the 'spot' i mean on my frontpage here-
http://onlinebanter.com/

As i type this though i'm a wondering if i could make that spot a block region? Then i could have a welcome message on the frontpage and then use it as a region to add helpfull advice for differant sections of my site. also i could add a random quote view for within nodes etc.

Could anyone offer me advice on either adding a view to a page.tpl or creating a block region in the wee spot ive found?

All help appreciated.

thanks
You can open your theme's .info file and add regions[my_region] = My region. Now open your page.tpl.php and do print $my_region (the name of the variable corresponds to the regions array index - see the first sentence) where the region should be rendered. After this make sure to clear your Drupal's cache so that it picks up the new region and the modified page.tpl.php.

Views can generate block displays. After you created the block display, you can use the Drupal's default blocks interface to put the Views block into the region you created, or better yet use a module like: Context which gives you more control over when to show which blocks in what region and when not to...