Design and Prototyping for Drupal

Step 5: Create the Other Pages

Now that I have my basic page structure down, it’s time to start looking at the other pages in my site. Working with the styles I’ve already created (and creating new ones as I need to), I’ll create the following pages in my layout:

• Blog listing, with the sidebars as used in my two-sidebar layout

• Category page, based on the blog listing page

• Project page, with associated images and text

• Project listing, with images and a brief project description

• Contact page

• A 404 (page not found) and 403 (access denied) page

• The home page, with associated blocks and callout areas

This should cover most of the pages that I will be setting up in the Drupal implementation, and give me more than enough to work with. Many of the pages will feed each other—for example, my blog listing page will start with my two-sidebar layout, and change the listing, and then the category page will follow from that. However, the project pages, being highly image/case study focused, will require special treatment, including putting some thought into how I’m going to organize the projects, and how they should be displayed. This is where having the real content comes in handy; because I know that the content I’m dealing with in this section is highly visual, I realize that my needs for this particular page will be different than my needs for the blog pages. Figures 7-8 through 7-10 show the approximate layouts that I’ve created.

Figure 7-8. Our project page, with images

Figure 7-9. The blog listing, ...