Drupal Gardens is a free and user friendly way to create a site using a CMS (Content Management System)

1. Drupal
Gardens 2
Theming with THEME
BUILDER

2. Custom Theme

3. Appearance/THEMES
From the
Administrative Menu:
APPEARANCE/THEME
S/MINIMA
Select Save and Publish MINIMA

4. Block Regions
THIS IS THE BLOCK
REGION DEMO
A Drupal Web Site
Is made up of
Blocks

5. Blocks
Here by this
Drop down
Menu, you can
Move your
Blocks around
the page
.
HEADER
REGION
BLOCKS

6. Might be a good idea
To add BLOCKS to
Your shortcut bar!

7. Scroll Down Blocks Page
Disabled blocks page

8. More on Blocks
Changing Themes
 When you change
themes your block
structure remains
intact

9. Creating A Rotating
Banner Block
Image gallery

10. ADMIN/STRUCTURE/ADD ROTATING BLOCK
ADD ROTATING
BANNER
ADD BLOCK
or

11. BANNER GIVE YOUR BANNER A NAME
Shortcut bar
Is grey.

12. ADD images to Banner
Five images in the
Rotating Banner/Slides
folder

13. BANNER: add images
Regular user view
Rotating
banner
Image
gallery.
These images will be displayed where you place the block

14. BANNER Page
BANNER SETTINGS
Banner Settings.

15. BANNER Page
Image Transitions
Scroll DOWN.
Box for amount of
seconds image is
Displayed before
Switching to next
Image.
ALWAYS PRESS SAVE AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE AFTER MAKING SELECTIONS

16. Rotating Banner DONE!
Next MODULES

17. MODULES
Control functionality, interactivity

18. Create New Page My sites
 Create a
New site

19. ADD SITE/site manager
+ or -
Click Create a New Site in the Site Manager, I have three sites.

20. ADD SITE/give name
I just added a digit, 2 to create new: seminartest2

21. Dynamic
Content:
Here you are
Able to select
Different
Types of
Functionality.

22. Dynamic
Content:
Here you are
Able to select
Different
Types of
Functionality.
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Links to twitter,
facebook

23. Admin/Modules
Modules
from the
Admin Bar
MODULES

24. MODULES PAGE

25. MODULES
Core
Contributed
Some created by Acquia for Drupal Gardens
Modules check on and off,
Watch out for
dependancies

26. THEME BUILDER
Dive in deep to design

27. THEME BUILDER

28. THEME BUILDER: choose

29. THEME BUILDER:
LIST of THEMES

30. THEME BUILDER:
STYLES/FONTS
ELEMENT
SELECTED:
kevinduggans

31. THEME BUILDER:
STYLES/LAYOUT LAYOUT TAB SELECTED

32. THEME BUILDER CREATES
REAL DRUPAL THEMES
Themes can be exported to Core Drupal.

33. QUICK OVERVIEW OF
THEMEBUILDER
Theme Builder has five TABS.

34. QUICK OVERVIEW OF
THEMEBUILDER
Clicking the “-” minimizes Theme Builder
For a better look at your styling.

35. QUICK OVERVIEW OF
THEMEBUILDER, Brand Tab
Color Schemes made to order.

36. QUICK OVERVIEW OF
THEMEBUILDER, Brand Tab
Your Logo and Favicon.

37. QUICK OVERVIEW OF
THEMEBUILDER, Layout Tab
Change your columns.

38. QUICK OVERVIEW OF
THEMEBUILDER, STYLES Tab
STYLE/F O N T S.

39. QUICK OVERVIEW OF
THEMEBUILDER, STYLES Tab
STYLE/BORDER AND SPACING.

40. QUICK OVERVIEW OF
THEMEBUILDER, STYLES Tab
STYLE/BACKGROUND.