Part 1 - Drupal Theming - Panels & Panels Everywhere HD

[cojanti]

Thanks for all your comments! I've been unable to reply to messages and comments recently due to being off work for eye surgery - I'm back on now so expect replies and more videos soon!!

Joe

[jaysharma77]

Hi Joe, when creating a content type for each menu item, did you define any extra fields in the manage fields section or did you just use the default? - another newbie :-)

[Doesumama]

Thank you for the tutorial, it's very thorough.

[gimposer]

hi Joe, I have one question for you... how do you connect your pages to the menu items on your side... thanks, A Newbie.

[gimposer]

Thanks for sharing... this is the best screencast or blogpost I have seen on the topic... and I have been grappling with Drupal for more than 6 months... love your presentation...

[lisboa81]

fantastic!!! thanks



[lazarus554]

Good instructions series. I was surprised to the wood company phone no is local no.

[saltatv]

Great tutorial, thanks for sharing, I,ve seen lots of videos and this is perfect , cool attitude, thanks a lot, the nasty comments from this one person 6 month ago is not true. You know your job and how to explain it, gooood luck

[cojanti]

@saltatv Thanks - it's great to hear they are useful to people... Drupal 7 tuts coming soon

[fricomarcelo]

Very nice tutorials, I really liked it. I got how you used Panels to set up all the different content types of the site. I'm curious how you set the layout of each of the different panels throughout the site. For example how is the header on top of the Menus and the other panels below them? Thanks a lot for your videos.

[cojanti]

@fricomarcelo The header is a mini panel, also the footer, & they're placed on the page together with the menu, the page content and messages using Panels Everywhere. You can use Panels to layout the page content, and 'Panels Everywhere' to lay out the entire page - Panels Everywhere overides page.tpl to give you a graphic way of changing your entire site theme using site templates that work in a similar way to Panels. Reply me if you need more info. Thanks for the nice comments!

[azalinsky]

Great work. Thank you! Can you identify the music in the beginning of the webcast?

[cojanti]

@azalinsky sure - it's a track called Guadalajara, by Nati Cano - Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano

[LeetKillaDethKrew]

What module/theme are you using for your admin menu? I like the dropdown functionality.

Thanks!

[cojanti]

@LeetKillaDethKrew Hi, It's a module called administration menu - drupal.org/project/admin_menu I think.

[authentictech]

I haven't quite grasped the benefit yet of creating a content type and then using panel variants to display a panel page over just creating an individual plain panel pages in the first place. Could you elaborate on the advantage of this approach please? Thanks.

[authentictech]

Got it now. Using selection rules and contexts the variants can display different content while you only needed to define the panel page variant once instead of several times.

[cojanti]

@authentictech Great! Templates really give you power because you only have to create them once, and then all following pages follow their design. For just a small site with without a blog panel pages would be fine, but I started using this technique when creating a large site for an organization who had their own editors adding articles and news updates etc..

[cojanti]

@authentictech The main benefit for me is to have all the extra node info available to be used. For example, meta descriptions and keywords can be added to the node edit as usual using the nodewords/meta tags quick modules, but then can be used in the Panels template so that they are displayed. That's the main reason I chose this method.

[josephseven]

You did an excellent job on that web site.

[cojanti]

@josephseven Thanks! Glad you liked it.

[mominatorscd]

Thank you. Good job!

[cojanti]

@mominatorscd cheers!

[slowboatsam]

Excellent. Best explanation and how to for panels and panels everywhere. I got a little stymied in the beginning until I caught that I need to create a content type for each page first. After that I was able to follow along fine. Thank you very much!

[cojanti]

@slowboatsam Thanks! There are other ways to use Panels & Panels Everywhere which may be better - splitting up by content type is only one way - but for me it's the most intuitive and I use it all the time now. I'm open to suggestions though!

[cojanti]

@Theeullrich I think I might do a screencast on this aspect soon - how to create a complete user dashboard using panels.

[cojanti]

@Theeullrich Thanks! The 'dashboard' is simply a new page (of a new content type 'dashboard') which uses panels to lay it out You have help text in the middle,& links on the right for adding /editing content and other common tasks.

[smithingya]

You have a nice voice, but the video is a little slow. A very good film though

[cojanti]

@smithingya Thanks. Yeah I watched it back and it was slow - the funny thing was it felt like it was speeding whilst I was recording. It was my first though, so I'm hoping the next will be more concise and quicker.

[Theeullrich]

Great work. I have watched them all many times. Though i was wondering how you added the "add content" and such in a panel

[Theeullrich]

@Theeullrich You call it the Dash Board in one of the last videos.

[d3m0nth0rn]

awesome

[DaoDucLam]

too much redundant mouse movement, and lack of emphasis utilities for watcher to known what he is intent to do

[idave147]

Great tutorial, thanks for sharing, you make Panels look like a piece of cake.

[cojanti]

@idave147 Thanks! I'm hoping to do more when I get the time

[donnamerlinetto]

Thank you so much for uploading this - very useful!