Why It Is Beneficial To Opt For Customized Drupal Website
Drupal customization acts as the right impetus that brings various opportunities for you at the right point of time. If you are planning to take your online business to the next level to meet the market challenges, then you need to have a strong online presence that can withstand the latest trends. Being a powerful open source content management system, Drupal can offer you a highly-dynamic website that will give your business an extra edge over your competitors. Custom Drupal development allows the users to modify the site as per their specific requirements.How to change to Search Friendly URL In Drupal 7
If you see a website link like this http://yourdomain.com/node/83, it is 99.99% powered by Drupal. The link pattern of node/[number] is the default pattern of Drupal content links. However, if it looks like http://yourdomain.com/about-us, it will look more readable to human being.Drupal has a feature called "URL Alias" that allows you to provide a more understandable name to the content.
Creating a subtheme based on a core theme
Subthemes allow developers to customize and extend existing theme installations in a non-destructive manner. They are also handy in keeping the amount of repetitious code to a minimum thereby improving efficiency and easing management.
This recipe describes how to set up Drupal to use a different theme only for administration pages. This is a frequent requirement especially on brochure sites which have a limited number of regions where blocks can be placed or have missing page elements such as breadcrumbs which reduces usability. Having a separate administration theme also comes in handy during custom theme design as the site could well be largely unusable during the initial stages of development. A stable administration interface will therefore ensure that administrative tasks can still be performed effortlessly until the new theme becomes ready.
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For this example, we will be adding a Recent Comments block to the Left sidebar region, assuming that such a region exists, of the Garland core theme.
Adding an Existing Block to the Drupal Theme
Drupal’s page layout is customarily divided into a number of regions which are laid out
differently from theme to theme. For example, a theme could have regions named Left
sidebar and Right sidebar which will be displayed to the left and right hand side respectively of another region named Content. Regions serve as containers for blocks.
Blocks are self-contained elements which are located within regions and typically contain
information or functionality that is repeated consistently across multiple pages. They can
contain contextual information that complements the actual content of a page such as a block that outputs information about the author of the node currently being displayed, or static information such as a login form block or a block that displays advertisements.
For this example, we will be adding a Recent Comments block to the Left sidebar region, assuming that such a region exists, of the Garland core theme.
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