Part 1 - Drupal Theming - Panels & Panels Everywhere HD

Watch the second part here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t58piu8HhQ

Please watch in HD to best see the screen.

Part 1 of 5 in a series giving an overview of the Panels & Panels Everywhere modules for theming your Drupal website. Part 1 covers Panels basics, an overview of Panels and Panels Everywhere, and a templating introduction.

There was a lot to cover, and Im sure to have missed bits and not gotthings exacly as I wanted them - but hopefully it'll be helpful to anyone starting out with Panels & Panels Everywhere.

Part 1
Intro & Overview, Panels Basics, Panels Templating

Part 2
Further templating, node template, theming the node edit form, Mini Panels

Part 3
Panels & CSS, Adding CSS to your Panels content, using Firebug

Part 4
Panels Everywhere - setting it up and adding CSS to format the page template.

Part 5
Other sites I used Panels Everywhere on, using Panels to create a user dashboard.

My site:
http://www.joecanti.com

The website used for most of the tutorial:
http://www.sidvalleytreesurgery.co.uk

This is my first screencast, so be kind! ! If you have any question leave them in the comments and I'll try to answer.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• drupal
• panels everywhere
• theming
• web design
• panels

[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

[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

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.