Multiple user-selected front page layouts I would like my site builders to be able to select from three unique front page layouts.  The selection can be made either through config or through theme settings, but not require any coding.  The three pages have different pieces of content consisting mostly of fields.  I've looked at panels but I would prefer to use something a little lighter as panels seems like a lot for this one piece of functionality.  Has anyone here solved a similar problem?
You could add a checkbox in the theme settings and adjust the page template accordingly in a page preprocess. 

Something similar to this would go in the theme-settings.php file in your theme...

function THEMENAME_system_theme_settings_alter(&amp;$form, $form_state) {
    $form['front_layout'] = array(
      '#type'          =&gt; 'radios',
      '#title'         =&gt; t('Front Page Layout'),
      '#options'       =&gt; array(
        'layout_1' =&gt; t('Layout 1'),
        'layout_2' =&gt; t('Layout 2'),
        'layout_3' =&gt; t('Layout 3'),
      ),
      '#default_value' =&gt; theme_get_setting('front_layout'),
    );
}


Add new page template suggestions in a page preprocess ...

function THEMENAME_preprocess_page(&amp;$variables) {
  if ($is_front) {
    $layout_setting = theme_get_setting('front_layout');
    $variables['theme_hook_suggestions'][] =  'page__' . $layout_setting;
  }
}


This would allow you to have separate page templates for each layout. An example being page--layout-3.tpl.php.

If it's merely css changes you need, you could add a body class in an html preprocess ... 

function THEMENAME_preprocess_html(&amp;$variables, $hook) {
  if ($is_front) {
    $layout_setting = theme_get_setting('front_layout');
    $variables['classes_array'][] = drupal_html_class($layout_setting);
  }
}


In this example you would have a "layout-1", "layout-2" or "layout-3" class on the body element.