Pages that look different on the same site

By CHW Central on 1 Oct 2014 at 23:53 UTC

This is (hopefully) a very basic question. We would like to add a blog that would be branded differently than the rest of our site. How do I create a blog that has a different masthead and overall look than the rest of our site? Could we use a different theme? If we did should I be looking to create a new content type? View?

thanks for your help! I am learning as I go with drupal!

Comments

If it's just a few minor

Jaypan commented 2 October 2014 at 01:20

If it's just a few minor changes, you can usually make them by adjusting the visibility of the blocks that are shown on the pages in question, and changing some colors etc for those specific pages using CSS. If it's an entirely different layout, you can create a new theme for the pages in question, then set that theme to be shown on those pages. To do this, I believe there are some modules that can assist, one I've read about is the themekey module. I don't have much knowledge on the module method however, as I implement hook_custom_theme() in a module and set the theme to be shown based on the current path of the page.

themekey

CHW Central commented 2 October 2014 at 12:08

I added this module last night and was able to set the theme based on the path. I just need to read more about themeing in order to make it look how I want it to look. within the theme settings I can change the color, logo, favicon, etc but i need to read more to develop further customization.

Thanks for your help

alter theme page template

XandieL commented 2 October 2014 at 01:55

i think you can alter the page template for the specific node

page--example.tpl.php

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