Blocks

Blocks are the boxes visible in the sidebar(s) of your Drupal website. Most of the blocks that you will see (e.g., recent forum topics) are generated on-the-fly by various Drupal modules, but you can also create your own blocks.

Whether, and where, a given block will appear on a page depends on both the theme enabled and on administrative block settings. Block settings are controlled from the block administration screen, which you can reach by clicking administer » blocks. From this screen, you will be able to control whether each block is enabled where it will be placed on the page, and which pages it should appear on.