Starting from an existing site + fly-out menu
Thu, 05/29/2008 - 13:00
Two questions about the fabulous-looking new Publisher theme.
1.I'm currently running a Drupal installation (version 5) and was wondering: if I edit existing content, can I easily place it in the featured blocks? Or would you only advise it to be used with new Drupal installations?
2.The demo page of the theme shows a great fly-out/drop-down menu for the Features part. In the Vimeo video's you only go up to secondary links. How did you make this kind of menu? Using ... tertiary links'? How far does it go? Could it still show links at a lower level?
Thanks,
Ken
Thu, 05/29/2008 - 20:01
#1
Drupal theme for existing site
Hi Ken,
I'd be happy to answer those questions.
1) Sure, it would be extremely easy to just edit existing content and add it to the featured regions in the front page of the Publisher theme. If you are using the "story" content type for your content, then by default it'll work with this theme since the content type used for the front page content uses stories.
Of course, I would always advise on setting the theme up on a subdirectory of your host unless you don't mind taking your website offline for a brief amount of time until you have it set up.
2) The dropdown menu can easily be created by first creating a "Secondary links" menu under the menus administration section. Then, you simply go to the menus "settings" tab and assign the secondary links you just created to the "Secondary links" menu.
From there you can add main navigation links to this secondary menu and then one level of child categories under the main categories added there.
It takes about 1 to 2 minutes to add this Secondary menu.
Please let me know if I can help further.
Thanks
Fri, 05/30/2008 - 08:54
#2
Hi Brian,
Thanks
Hi Brian,
Thanks for the swift reply.
You talk about taking the site offline for a bit in order to set it up OR working with a subdirectory. Could you elaborate on this a little further? I thought I could make the necessary changes to the way blocks are shown in a specific theme without it having an impact on what my visitors see in the current theme.
If I understand correctly however they would see all the 'work in progress'?
In any case: I love the look and feel of the theme and it'll be something I'll be getting in the near future. I just need to know if I have to book a weekend off to do all the changes in once or if I could prepare it gradually :-D
Thanks,
Ken
