My apologies if this is a terribly basic question, but I am a complete noob wrt Drupal.

I am using Pixture Reloaded for a test site. On the home page, I would like three column - a skinny one on the left side, a wide one in the middle, and a skinny one on the right side. I had no problems configuring this.

On all other pages, I would like just two columns - a skinny one on the left side and a wide one which occupies the middle and right side. How can I configure my site to do this?

Thank you.

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Diane Bryan’s picture

Hi Gerald,

I'll take a stab at helping you with this. Adaptive Theme really accommodates every kind of layout you can imagine (or any I've thought up so far). You can select that layout you just described in the Appearance/(your AT subtheme)/Settings page. It's pretty common, so it is the first one illustrated under "Standard Layout".

There are a few ways to have content display on one page and not others, but I'll describe a very flexible, universal method built into Drupal.

When you put content into the sidebar region, you are probably using either views, menus, or text and images, typically in the form of blocks. In the blocks admin page all the blocks start out disabled at the bottom of the page. For each block there is a table of information, and on the far right is a "Configure" link.

Click that link to get to the configuration page for that block. There, you can select from a drop-down the region you want that block to appear in. And towards the bottom right of that page you'll find an option to write in which pages will or will not display that block.

Thus, if you want that block showing up only on the home page, you can type "", and it will only show up on the front page (that's the word "front" surrounded by angle brackets)

if that right sidebar has no blocks visible on a particular page, the middle column will stretch to fill its space. Pretty slick!

After you configure a block, be sure to save the new overall blocks configuration. You can also drag the blocks around from region to region, but you'll have to click that "configure" button to indicate which pages will display the block.

One of the first things I do is move any blocks I'm not going to use down into the disabled section so I can start to see whether my sidebars will appear or not on each page. And I sometimes even make dummy blocks of text (or images) to take the place of the real content I'll eventually put there. This allows me to fiddle with the layout until I'm satisfied.

Another way to achieve a unique homepage layout is with Display Suite. You'll want to look up the tutorials for that one as it's more complex (but very flexible). Search Youtube for Drupal 7 Display Suite by Kristof de Jaeger.

Have fun!

groston’s picture

Diane,

My apologies for having taken this long to thank you for your kind and helpful reply.

As much as I would like to use the Pixture Reloaded sub-theme of the Adapted Themes template, I will be seeking an alternative because of the complete and total lack of support I have received from them, even after having paid for support. This is terribly disappointing since the theme offer almost everything I need out-of-the-box and any other theme will probably require a lot more effort to configure in the desired manner.