Themes Choice and Configuration

Drupal provides a few themes with your site and other contributed themes are available for download from Drupal (see the toward the bottom of this page).

Under themes in the administration area, administrators can choose which themes to enable and designate the default theme for the site. The themes section also offers various configuration options which affect the display and navigation for the site. Administrators can select these globally for all themes, or customize them on a per theme basis. For example, the global settings page contains the following options:

  • Logo image settings. Used to override the default logo for a particular site theme.
  • Menu settings. The primary links and secondary links fields here are for customizing the navigation links available in the header of every page. Note that if the primary links field is left blank, Drupal will automatically generate links to enabled modules.
  • Display post information on. Controls whether the submitted by and date information is displayed for a given node type.
  • Toggle display. Enables or disables various page elements.

Advanced: HTML and CSS coders can choose to create their own site skin. Consult the Theme developer's guide in the Drupal handbook for more information.

Note: Some of the themes offered on this site use a specified format for the creation of primary and secondary links. Thus, in configuring any themes, always view both the global theme settings and the one's for the individual theme you are using.