3. Key Assumptions
You are familiar using Views Module
You are familiar with Fields & Content Types
You understand basic theming concepts
You understand how to install Drupal modules
Panels is not your only friend
6. Display Suite Purpose
Display Suite allows you to take full control over how
your content is displayed using a drag and drop
interface.
Arrange your nodes, views, comments, user data etc.
the way you want without having to work your way
through dozens of template files.
Packaged with predefined list of layouts
Source: http://drupal.org/project/ds
7. Module Maintainer
Written by Kristof De Jaeger
Experienced web developer ever since PHP 3 came out. He got
hooked on Drupal after experimenting with tons of other
frameworks including writing his own - who didn't right ? He has
written a dozen modules, writes patches for Drupal core and will
review every single line of code that goes out into production.
He's not afraid to dive into code and research best performance
practices in order to save kittens. His passion is so big he got a
Druplicon tattoo on his wrist. Talk about dedication! Thinks a day
should have 36 hours so he can finally release that one rock
album to conquer the world and retire on his own private island.
Builds arcade machines in the meantime to relive his childhood.
http://krimson.be/about/kristof-de-jaeger
8. Statistics & Reach
Maintenance Status: Actively maintained
Development Status: Under active development
Reported Installs: 21,846 active sites
Downloads: 84,275
Last modified: April 14, 2012
Stable Version: 7.x-1.5
Ranked: 113 out of 9728
Source: http://drupal.org/project/ds
9. Panels vs. Display Suite
The Display Suite always starts with a single object such as a node
and offers a way to configure its display by rearranging the fields for
that node in a fixed 5 column layout.
Panels is focused on combining different objects such as blocks,
nodes, Views etc. together in a variety of layouts.
As mentioned, Panels Pages offer the option to change the layout of
the detail page of a node and you have the option to create several
variants based on arguments.
Source: http://www.jyvesgarden.com/blog/display-suite-vs-panels
10. Panels vs. Display Suite
With the Display Suite you can define the layout of your node
detail, but it does not take any arguments.
Double nesting: In DS, you can put your fields in one of the 5
regions, but inside those regions, you can also group them together
in fieldgroups.
Panels is restricted to one level of grouping.
Source: http://www.jyvesgarden.com/blog/display-suite-vs-panels
15. View Modes
View modes are another name for layouts in Display Suite
They control how the page will be render via templates
You are allowed to create custom templates
Unlike the Panalizer Module you can’t mange display the size
placement of regions through the UI. Although using CSS it is
possible to achieve similar results
17. Code Fields
For Display Suite code fields are like what cck and and block api is
for drupal core.
They all you to add custom and system generated variables directly
to multiple entity types.
You can also access any variable that your theme templates have
access to using dynamic fields
19. Display Suite Styles
Display suite styles all you to add custom classes to DS regions
They allow you to add custom styles to individual fields
Functions a lot like panels and skinr style options
33. Where To Get Help
http://www.youtube.com/user/swentieman
http://groups.drupal.org/display-suite
http://vimeo.com/15863937
http://drupal.org/node/644706
http://krimson.be
Source: http://www.jyvesgarden.com/blog/display-suite-vs-panels
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