Setup and User Guide
The Drupal Publisher theme fits almost any style website, such as a newspaper or magazine website, or any website that publishes content and desires a more elegant display of content for visitors. The Publisher theme gives Publishing agencies and other companies a way to showcase certain types of content on the homepage - like that of larger sites that have spent thousands on layout and design.
Drupal Publisher Theme Features
- Drupal 6.x compatible
- CSS / Tableless design
- Tabbed JavaScript front page content block - display up to 5 unique stories with larger images
- 4 custom front page feature blocks that use several Drupal modules to display content and image thumbnails
- Unique Drupal design that you can easily add functionality to as your site grows
- The Publisher Theme gives you a design and preset layout configurations worth thousands in development for a fraction of the cost!
Publisher Theme Snapshot
The Drupal Publisher Theme block details (the numbers below correspond to the numbers on the image snapshot to the left):
1) Block 1 - JavaScript tabbed content using Publisher module.
2) Block 2 - First featured block region for content image teasers and category titles on the homepage.
3) Block 3 - Second featured block region for content image teasers and category titles on the homepage.
4) Block 4 - This right column block uses Imagecache like the other 3 featured block regions on the homepage. The image snapshots are smaller for this location and you can include as many as you'd like here.
The example video teaser we have added to the right column (top) and the left column blocks for categories on the homepage have all been added through the administer "blocks" menu within the administration section of Drupal. These were created by default as "blocks" because they only appear on the homepage and creating a dynamic display of these few blocks would've added several more layers of setup, complications, and instructions which is not really needed since they only appear on the homepage of the Drupal Publisher theme. Click here to buy the Publisher Theme
Installation instructions
The Publisher theme currently works with Drupal 6.x, so the following modules need to be downloaded and installed in order for the theme to function like the demo.
- CCK module - (6.x-2.0-rc10 version) http://drupal.org/project/cck
- Imagefield module - (6.x-3.0-alpha2 version) http://drupal.org/project/imagefield
- Imagecache module - (6.x-2.0-beta2 version) http://drupal.org/project/imagecache
- ImageAPI module - (6.x-1.0 version) http://drupal.org/project/imageapi
- FileField module - (6.x-3.0-alpha5) http://drupal.org/project/filefield
- Publisher module - Packaged with purchase of the Publisher theme
Publisher Installation Video Tutorials
Video 1 - Making sure the right modules are installed
Video 2 - Configuring ImageCache, setting up a content type
Video 3 - Configuring Publisher module, enabling theme
Video 4 - Adding content, getting it to the right place
Video 5 - A word on blocks
That's it! The rest of the settings, particularly the Imagecache settings that size the front page teaser images, can be tweaked to your liking within the Imagecache settings page. For blocks #2 and #3 on the homepage (the ones under the JavaScript tabbed block) use these settings for example:
Crop - 193 (width) 111 (height) | X offset = center | Y offset = top
Block #4 (the right column teaser images) simply use this setting:
Resize - 76 (width) 79 (height)
You can feel free to change these to your liking though. Thanks!
