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Drupal 7 Media

You're reading from   Drupal 7 Media Integrate, implement, and extend rich media resources such as images, videos, and audio on your Drupal 7 website with this book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516082
Length 260 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Liran Tal Liran Tal
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Blocks and themes


Themes are a very important aspect of every website as they create the look and feel and are expected to convey a very intuitive and user friendly presentation of the underlying functionality.

Drupal's theme layer is very flexible and powerful, among many things it is composed from a collection of web assets like CSS, JavaScript, images, and of course the HTML template layouts.

Blocks

When looking at a website, it is often very common to notice a sort of pattern that emerges in the overall website's layout. Taking the US government's white house website (http://whitehouse.gov) for example, we can break it's layout into the following parts:

  • The header which is at the top has to the left of it the White House's title, if so to say, along with a logo at the middle and some useful links to the right like contacting them

  • The horizontal menu is the main navigation area of the website, right after the header line

  • The middle top parts wins with image rich content and even wraps around...

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