Blocks and themes

Themes are a very important aspect of every website as they create the look and feel and are expected to convey a very intuitive and user friendly presentation of the underlying functionality.

Drupal's theme layer is very flexible and powerful, among many things it is composed from a collection of web assets like CSS, JavaScript, images, and of course the HTML template layouts.

Blocks

When looking at a website, it is often very common to notice a sort of pattern that emerges in the overall website's layout. Taking the US government's white house website (http://whitehouse.gov) for example, we can break it's layout into the following parts:

• The header which is at the top has to the left of it the White House's title, if so to say, along with a logo at the middle and some useful links to the right like contacting them

• The horizontal menu is the main navigation area of the website, right after the header line

• The middle top parts wins with image rich content and even wraps around...