How to? Site-wide 'ribbon'

Posted by drupaldingo on November 28, 2012 at 9:45am

Morning all!
I'm looking for some advice/guidance on how to implement a 'ribbon' along the top edge of a site (Drupal 7 using a custom theme based on Zen) Kind of like on this site - http://www.vice.com/en_uk
Can I do it with views? A new region in the theme? Or does it have to be done with CSS 'outside' of the site structure?
Any pointers much appreciated
Cheers

Comments

You could just add a block

Posted by steeph on November 28, 2012 at 3:38pm

You could just add a block with the ribbon in it and display it on every page. Here is a post that might help: http://scito.ch/de/node/11

Thanks Steeph, i'll have a

Posted by drupaldingo on November 30, 2012 at 1:44pm

Thanks Steeph, i'll have a look at that.

Could I amend that same

Posted by drupaldingo on November 30, 2012 at 1:47pm

Could I amend that same method to add a strip along the top edge of the site rather than a corner strip?
Thanks

Yes, that would be the same

Posted by steeph on November 30, 2012 at 6:19pm

Yes, that would be the same method. It's really just CSS. It doesn't necessarily be placed in it's own region. The important part is the "position: absolute;" that makes its position independent from the rest of the page.