2. What do I want to do Re-think how you architect, design and implement a Drupal website.
3. Typical Drupal Design Blue areas are regions Blocks in regions are unrelated to the content Have to use PHP snippets to make blocks context sensitive Can only place a block in one region All regions always render even when not displayed in page.tpl.php Header Content Left Sidebar Right Sidebar Footer
4. How Designers See A Page Everything on a page is a part of the content of that page, taken within the context of the entire site. Content
7. Page Manager Don’t just decorate what the site gives you. Do not let the page own the content, let the content own the page. List all your pages, or at least the page templates, in one place. Let your pages show what they want to show based upon things like content type, user access levels, current language, etc.
8. Create a page Decide where it lives. In Drupal, the URL controls the hierarchy. i.e, /members/admin is automatically under /members. Decide what its context is. Decide what content it displays.
9. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Pronunciation: kän-ˌtekstbr />Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, weaving together of words, from Latin contextus connection of words, coherence, from contexere to weave together, from com- + texere to weave — more at technical Date: circa 1568 1: the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning2: the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs :environment, setting <the historical context of the war> — con·text·less ˌtekst-ləsadjective — con·tex·tu·al än-ˈteks-chə-wəl, kən-, -chəl, -chü-əladjective — con·tex·tu·al·lyadverb
10. Context in the sense of a Page All the data objects that you need in order to generate the content to display: Node User Language Taxonomy Term Forum Organic Group
11. Where do Contexts Come From? Arguments /taxonomy/term/%term /forum/%forum /music/beatles/the-white-album/hey-jude Other contexts Node author Node reference They just are
12. Why is this important? When you add a piece of content to a Page Manager Page, you can tell it which context it cares about. Node views need a node context. User profiles need a user context. Forum listings need a forum context. Views can accept contexts too!
13. Variants: Do You See What I See? Authenticated users need a richer experience? Local users should see more Local content on the front page? Separation of pages is not necessarily by path? As far as Drupal is concerned, all /node/% URLs are handled the same way. i.e, /node/2 and /node/3 use the same rendering mechanism. But my wireframes don't agree.
Editor's Notes
Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer who made the world re-think cosmology in the 16th century
