Panels for designersAn introduction to Panels 3 for people who like

crayons

You do realize, I’m just demoing some moduleanother guy made?

The session

What?

Why?

Basic setup?

+ Views

Workflows & version control

Custom layouts

Jesper WøldicheDesigner

Journalist

Architect

Markup Marine

Danish

Using Drupal since 2008

You?

A word of caution

Earl MilesCreator of Panels

The real Earl Miles(when coding)

Me(while coding)

The workings of PanelsAs I understand it

Config Black Magic Output

Features of Panels

$content

Different layouts and contentA way of serving different layouts and content based on

different criteria.

A way of controllingdisplaysYes, you can do that with node-type.tpl.php and template.php

too…

Making content awareA way of making content aware of context

Why?Reasons to use Panels

One of severaloptions

Reasons to go with Panels

Easy way to theme nodes

Conditional layouts and content

Combining components

Easy export and version control

Context aware content

Easy deployment

Installing panels

Packages

Panels 3.x

Ctools

Extras

Views (2)

CCK

Semantic Views

Semantic CCK

Menu Block

ImageCache etc.

Getting set up

Built in & custom panels

Best friendsforeverViews Content Panes

Exporting Panels

Creating layouts

Adding layouts

sites/all/modules/panels/plugins/layouts/

sites/all/themes/your-theme/layouts/

Anatomy of a customlayout

my_awesome_layout.inc

my-awesome-layout.tpl.php

my_awesome_layout.css

my_awesome_layout.png

What’s in a name?Don’t scare Panels

A few words onstyling

my_awesome_layout.css#panels-dnd-main

Selectors on pages / variantsClasses and IDs for pages

Selectors on contentClasses and IDs for panes

Good o’le CCK and Views

Or take the easy way outSemantic Views and Semantic CCK

Questions?