By mechromancer on

Hello, I'm still new to Drupal and now I am exploring new ways to customize the home page of my website.

Now, I see a lot of themes that have some kind of "blocks" before the Content region but they are not blocks... I don't even know how to explain this.

Just look at this theme: https://www.drupal.org/project/photography_zymphonies_theme (I hope it is not spam, sorry for that) those "Event", "Workshop" "Drupal CMS" things right under the NivoSlider, seems like they are not blocks, and I can't figure out how to make such things. What am I missing?

Thanks in advance.

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babipanghang’s picture

babipanghang commented

It's probably the views module generating these. It is usually used to generate a list of content and very customizable.

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mechromancer commented

I doubt they are View blocks...

Any other idea?

XandieL’s picture

XandieL commented

the banner is can be made with view block

the event up to up date might be a single block with html mark up

the footer might be a site map? or just a block too

i think everything else is just css just to make it look like that way

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nimazuk’s picture

nimazuk commented

Hi,
They are four regions next to each other: Region classes > region-top-widget-1 region-top-widget-2 ,...-3 , ...-4

If you look at the source of the demo of this theme, you can see these regions and content of them are normal blocks with HTML content, which are static and will not change automatically. The owner of theme put them there just to show how it would be.

You can fill these regions with your own blocks created with VIEWS or other modules producing dynamic data views.

Hope it helps.

Nima