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Chapter 20 ■ Building a Company Site With the preceding requirements in hand, we can then identify how we’re going to meet those requirements with Drupal. The solutions corresponding to the requirements listed are as follows: 1. Use the Basic page content type to create a page that describes the company. 2. Use a custom content type for client projects. 3. Use the Article content type tagged as a Service Offering, and an entity reference field to link selected client projects. 4. Expand the standard Drupal user profile to include biographical information for staff, and add a view to display a page of staff profiles. 5. Create a taxonomy vocabulary called Article Type, add vocabulary terms (e.g., News, Blog Posts, Service Offering), and add a view to display news articles in chronological order (descending by post date, with the newest article at the top of the list). 6. Use the Aggregator module to pull and display news feeds from identified sources on the Web. 7. Use the Article content type with the Article Type taxonomy term of Blog Post. We will also add a view to display blog posts in chronological order (descending by post date, with the newest blog post at the top of the list). 8. Use the Contact module and the contact form that is provided by that module. 9. Use blocks and menus. 10. Use a theme from Drupal.org. Installing Drupal After identifying the requirements and how to meet those requirements, the next step in creating the corporate site is to install Drupal. Follow the steps outlined in Appendix A to install Drupal either locally, on your server, on shared hosting, or a solution such as Pantheon or Acquia. Installing and Creating a Theme After installing Drupal, the next step is to pick a theme. You have many choices: • Create your own theme from scratch. • Start with one of the Drupal starter themes and customize it to meet your needs. • Find a theme on www.drupal.org/project/project_theme that is close to what you want, and modify the CSS and layout to meet your specific needs. • Find a theme on www.drupal.org/project/project_theme that meets your needs without modification. • Find and pay for a theme on one of the Drupal commercial theme sites. • Convert a theme from another CMS, such as WordPress, into a Drupal 8 theme. • Use one of the standard Drupal 8 core themes. 210
Chapter 20 ■ Building a Company Site For our corporate website project, we’ll focus on the second option, using a starter theme. A starter theme provides the foundation for creating a theme that addresses the specific design requirements for a site. A starter theme is typically fairly stark from a design perspective, which is purposeful in that the focus of starter themes is on the foundation, not the visual design. Visit www.drupal.org/project/project_theme, filter your search by core compatibility of Drupal 8x, and click Search. In the list of results, look for themes identified as starter themes. Some of the widely installed starter themes are Zen, Omega, Adaptive, Basic, Bootstrap, and NineSixty. For this project we’ll use Basic, as it provides a nice set of options and an easy-to-understand structure. Download Basic and follow the instructions in the README.txt file, including renaming the theme to acme_co, the name of the fictitious consulting company for whom we are going to create a website. Also set the “Site name” field to ACME Co on the “Site information” page (Manage ➤ Configuration ➤ Site information). The next step is to install the theme and set it as the default theme for the site (choose Manage ➤ Appearance and click “Install and set as default” in the Uninstalled Themes section). After setting the new theme to the default theme and changing the default logo to the ACME Company logo (on the Appearance page, click the Settings link to find the field to upload a new logo), I made a few quick changes to a few elements in the theme’s primary style sheet (styles.css) and reloaded the homepage, revealing the start of the new corporate website (see Figure 20-1). Figure 20-1. Basic starter theme installed The next step in the site build is to change the logo. Click the Appearance link in the secondary admin menu and click the Settings link next to the theme you selected and installed. Uncheck the “Use the default logo supplied by theme” check box, upload your logo, and click the “Save configuration” button. The last step in cleaning up the site before launching into site building is to remove the blocks that appear by default when installing Drupal 8. Click the Structure link on the secondary admin menu and click the “Block layout” link. Remove the blocks that are set to display automatically, with the exception of the “Main page content” block, by changing all of their Region column settings to None. Click the “Save blocks” button at the bottom of the page when finished. The design for our homepage calls for a list of the latest blog posts, a list of the latest news articles, and a list of aggregated news feeds. While we could place all of those items into the Content area of our homepage, 211
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