Installing and Using Drupal Themes

Installing Drupal Themes
Utilizing Menus
Customizing the Footer
Drupal Regions

Installing Drupal Themes

  1. Access your Web server using an FTP client or Web server administration tools.
  2. Create a folder for your specific theme under "<YourSiteFolder>/themes/" folder within Drupal installation.
    For example: <YourSiteFolder>/themes/<MyNewTheme>
  3. Copy or upload theme files exported from Artisteer into the newly created <MyNewTheme> folder.
  4. Login to your Drupal Administer.
  5. Go to Drupal Administer -> Site Building -> Themes
    (www.YourSite.com/?q=admin/build/themes)
  6. Select your newly uploaded theme from the list of available themes for your site.
  7. Click the "Save configuration" button to save your changes.
For more information please visit: http://drupal.org/node/456

Utilizing Menus

Please use the following steps to utilize menu style designed with Artisteer:
  1. Go to Drupal Administer -> Site Building -> Menus (www.YourSite.com/?q=admin/build/menu)
  2. Edit an existing menu or create a new one.
  3. Check the "Expanded" option for parent menu items if you want to create a drop down horizontal menu.
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  4. Go to Drupal Administer -> Site Building -> Blocks (www.YourSite.com/?q=admin/build/block)
  5. Place menu into the "Menu" region.If you would like to configure a vertical menu, choose "Left vertical menu" or "Right vertical menu" in the region.
NOTE: the "Menu" region can contain only a single menu, or none.

For more information please visit http://drupal.org/node/102338

Customizing the Footer

To customize the theme footer via Drupal Administer place one or multiple blocks into the "Copyright" region.

Here are sample steps to configure custom footer:
  1. Go to Drupal Administer -> Site configuration -> Site information (www.your-site.com/?q=admin/settings/site-information)
  2. Edit the Footer message field.
  3. Save your changes.

Drupal Regions


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