| Attribute | Average |
|---|---|
| Features | 4.33 / 5 |
| Reliability | 4 / 5 |
| Ease Of Use | 3.67 / 5 |
| Documentation | 3.67 / 5 |
| Vote Count | 3 |
The panels module is the ideological son, successor to and almost complete replacement for the dashboard module. This module allows you to create pages that are divided into areas of the page. Where the dashboard module only gave four areas--top, bottom, left and right--this one is a completely flexible... [More...]
| Maintainer: | merlinofchaos |
| Links: | |
| Categories: | Content display |
| Version | Date | Files | Release notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.x-2.0-beta5 | 2008-Jun-07 | Download | Supported for 5.x |
| 5.x-1.2 | 2007-Apr-04 | Download | Recommended for 5.x |
| 4.7.x-1.2 | 2007-Apr-04 | Download | Recommended for 4.7.x |
| 5.x-1.x-dev | 2007-Sep-13 | Download | Development snapshot |
| 4.7.x-1.x-dev | 2007-Apr-04 | Download | Development snapshot |
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Made our struggles with creating a consistent and complex look disappear, but still had issues, primarily with the FCKeditor, making it usable for the non-techies editing the content of the site. Java didnt like speaking with Java apparently. We were able to train around but we are also looking at a long-term solution to this issue...
Panels make is very easy to add multiple pieces of content to a single page without having to do any custom theme stuff for it. The new version of panels seems to fix any problems I had before with it, but it is still in beta and should be a very cool module when finished.
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Panels in isolation is a good module that lets you put content in a two column, three column or various other layout formats. But its best used with custom content types created with CCK and views. If you want a totally different front page use $isfront variable and remove the sidebars then create a different front page than all other pages with use of panels. Yes for this you'll need some CSS tweaking. See an example I made here.
As far as the current panels and the 2.0 alpha release I'd suggest some more layout formats that whats given with the two column and three columns ones. With 2.0 when I used it with panels block to show tabs I had some problems but I think they have sorted it out now. All in all, its a great module if you want to categorize and sort your content in you own style with no or minimal coding.
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"This module makes a seemingly complex task spectacularly easy. The UI is extremely intuitive and even..."
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