The point of starting off your template with a node page that doesn’t have sidebars is
this: you will inevitably have a page like this somewhere on your site. And many designers,
well-meaning as they are, end up forgetting this and assume there will be 1–2 sidebars
on the page. As Drupal’s default behavior reflows the text to fill the entire page when
there are no sidebars, this results in these pages having long and drastically uncomfortable
line lengths.
That said, it’s safe to assume that most pages will have at least one sidebar, and that
the sidebars will contain different types of blocks, for example:
• A list of node titles or categories
• Static text or images
• A tag cloud or something similar
• Callout boxes, like a contact form or customer testimonial
Therefore, while I’m working on my node pages, I should also take a look at how these
different types of sidebar blocks will be styled, and how I’ll set up both one- and twosidebar
layouts.
this: you will inevitably have a page like this somewhere on your site. And many designers,
well-meaning as they are, end up forgetting this and assume there will be 1–2 sidebars
on the page. As Drupal’s default behavior reflows the text to fill the entire page when
there are no sidebars, this results in these pages having long and drastically uncomfortable
line lengths.
That said, it’s safe to assume that most pages will have at least one sidebar, and that
the sidebars will contain different types of blocks, for example:
• A list of node titles or categories
• Static text or images
• A tag cloud or something similar
• Callout boxes, like a contact form or customer testimonial
Therefore, while I’m working on my node pages, I should also take a look at how these
different types of sidebar blocks will be styled, and how I’ll set up both one- and twosidebar
layouts.
