[themes] themes Digest, Vol 72, Issue 9

[Roger]

On 11/22/2013 03:28 AM, vibanu wrote:
> I am very new using drupal which you would know from my questions. 
> Yes, I will seperate navigation from the content of the 60 plus 
> pages. I understand this.
> Some one suggested to use panels for all these inside pages. I can use 
> 2 column layout. Left for content and right for navigation. Question 
> is in my understanding of this concept. This means should we create 60 
> such panel pages with 2 column layout? some content on left column is 
> static and some comes from the views. OR should ww use 2 column theme 
> and create 60 plus basic pages? I believe if we use pannels then I 
> don't need a theme for inside pages. I have pge.tpl.php for the home page.
Not at all.

I do not understand separating navigation from content, Navigation is a 
menu structure, content is filler for the page and can be displayed 
anywhere on the page. I have not found a reason for 60 plus pages in any 
of my dev work, our largest site has 15 pages but this is because of 
users, roles, permissions and specific data entry that is required in 
that particular system.

You may need a few pages but Panels can render content onto a page, then 
with the click of a mouse render different content to that page and even 
change the page layout for each render. All on the one page or small set 
of pages.

Johan Falk, NodeOne, Scandinavia has done a fantastic set of 13 
tutorials on using panels, they are an inspiration in how to rethink the 
way we use Drupal and Panels. I learned much and am in the processof 
redesigning our system accordingly and the best part, for me is that 
Panels uses our existing data and views and we can use the minimal Zen 
theme and we do not have to do any theming, Panels does that. A 
minimalist Zen works a treat for us.

But you can use any theme and switch off all of it's attributes so it's 
a blank page. I found this to be quite messy.

Regards
Roger