Posted by MJoyce on May 7, 2003 at 6:28am
I am very new to Drupal, so i appreciate I may just be misunderstanding something.
I have read the manual, an in theory, it really doesn;t sound to tricky.
The black can be placed either on the left of the central content or to the right, is that correct ?
In administration/blocks I have some on the left and some on the right, but when I view them as a user they all appear on the right.
It does not seem to matter what I set in admin/blocks.
admin/blocks/preview/layout 1 is what I want (what are layout 2 and 3?).
I am running Drupal 4.1.
Any ideas ?
thanks
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theme
Some themes support only 2 columns (one for content and one for blocks). Those themes disregard the block layout. Try some different themes. I'm not sure which default themes support a 3 column layout, because I use my own homebrewed theme.
Oh right. Shame there are
Oh right.
Shame there are no thumbnails of the available themes.
50% of the theme readme files do not work for me either.
there are screenshots
see Forums : Theme development / Can I preview themes?. for the latest theme versions, browse CVS and look for themes/mytheme/[images/]screenshot.png or themes/mytheme/screenshots/*.png.
Left/Right Block Confusion
Theme adc supports blocks on either or both sides, as do silver and unconed.
*Many* if not most themes support only left or right side - 'hard-coded' into the theme, and some say so in their README (as all should do).
FWIW, at most reasonable screen resolutions a one-side block layout gives a lot more useful reading area.......(says he at 1440 x 900 )
One can (usually) take a favorite two-column theme and edit it into a reversed version w/o too much work, then offer both options. Make sure to change naming internally, as Drupal reads all that, and a cobbled theme, or two with the same info, will throw an error.
Bill Hacker
Bill Hacker