I have worked with Panels so much today that i want to throw up. But I feel like I am finally making progress. Even though I almost had to roll back my sandbox to a backup.
Panels are good. They allow you to have an easier time with layouts. But they can be tricky. You have to have a theme enabled that will support it properly. Especially if you are looking to have a responsive theme for Mobile devices.
I had an issue with the Panels Everywhere module and the Advanced Forum theme. That has been cleared up for the most part. By that I mean that I am not going to be using Panels Everywhere. Although, the issue really was the default theme template for PE and the AF module. You can have the mods installed and enabled together but when I enable the default template for PE, AF give you an error that doesn’t clearly implicate PE. It was only through A LOT of T&E that I figured that out. I had great help from the AF guy at Drupal.org but it really wasn’t his issue. But, I have gotten around the impasse.
So, here is where I am on this particular subject”
- I’m going to start a new tag – “drupal idiosyncrasy” – DI
- DI – other themes may “look” available when you are setting up a panel. But that doesn’t mean it will work properly
- using adaptive themes AT Subtheme 7.x-3.1 for responsive design with Panels
- Chose “override” Drupal block in the panel that I set up
- went to structure, blocks and removed the custom placed blocks (from categorized feeds) that were still showing up even though I told the panel to override them.
- Told the panel that i want it to be the front page. check the vids from lullibot. too. this is one. http://drupalize.me/videos/setting-multi-column-home-page
now I have the detail that i wanted to have on the front page. This part was tricky and I thought a few times about throwing the whole thing out and going with Joomla. But, I persevered….
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