(Tutorial) Drupal Themes and Basic Blocks

Tutorial : Drupal Themes and Basic Blocks

A theme controls the look and feel for your website. It is used to customize the general layout of all content created on your site. For each theme you have the option to add your customized logo, site name, slogan, and control what contents appear where on the theme.

Some of the characteristics of a theme are its width type – fluid type or fixed width, number of columns – one, two, three or more columns, colors/fonts and location of the columns. Fluid width themes expand or contract based on the screen display of the user to fill up the entire screen. Fixed width themes on the other hand is fixed – usually 800x600 or 1024x768.

When a person with a larger screen layout views a fixed width layout the rest of the space remains empty.

The number of columns and the location of the column is usually a fixed attribute of the theme. You can control the contents of the column from the block section of your administrative panel. Some themes allow you to change the location of the columns, most don’t. Based on the desired look and feel you want to select a two or three column layout, that is either fixed width or fluid width.

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