Web design online - CHAPTER 2 CONFIGURING DRUPAL Enabling Themes Drupal
CHAPTER 2 CONFIGURING DRUPAL Enabling Themes Drupal includes four themes in its core distribution. As the administrator, you can decide which theme to use as a default for the site. Select administer . themes (admin/themes) to see a list of all the available themes. Changing the theme selected as the default and saving the configuration will change the look of your site. Try it out! You can test each of the available themes and decide which theme suits your needs best. If more than one theme is enabled, registered users will have the choice of which theme they would like to use when visiting your site. They can make this choice from their user account page. A possible application of this feature might include making different versions of your site available for different needs: low-bandwidth version, text-only version, Flash version, and so on. It is also quite handy if you are a web designer and want to show your client how a site might look with different designs and styles. Choosing Theme Settings To set various configuration settings for all of your themes at the global level, select administer . themes and click the Configure tab (admin/themes/settings). This page also lists links to the theme-specific settings pages for the individual themes. In general, settings at the individual theme level will override those at the global level. Logo The first group of options on any theme configuration page is labeled Logo Image Settings. You can either use the custom logo, if you are particularly thrilled with Drupal s little blue alien in a drop of water, or you can make and use your own logo. You can add your logo to a site in two ways. The first way is to upload your logo to the server using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) and enter its path into the Path field for the Custom Logo option. In this case, make sure to uncheck the Use the Default Logo option. The second option is to use the Upload Logo Image field and the Save Configuration button to send a logo to the server via HTTP upload. Note You will be able to upload a logo image using the Upload Logo Image field only if you have correctly configured the file system path where the image is to be stored. See the File System Settings section earlier in this chapter for details. Shortcut Icon Settings A shortcut (favicon.ico) icon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon) is a 16 .16 image that is sent to the browser for use in the address bar and tabs to help identify the site. Drupal aids you in customizing this often-overlooked detail for your site, even for each theme. You have the same options as with the custom logo: you can either place the icon on your server and then enter the path to the custom icon, or you can use the Upload Icon Image field to upload the file via HTTP. As with the custom logo, the upload doesn t occur until you click the Save Configuration button.
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