Rethinking our layout

Often, we will find ourselves having to rethink over the layout we are trying to accomplish while first creating a starter theme. In fact, creating a starter theme can actually be challenging at first with a lot of trial and error. Implementing our Jumbotron is quite a perfect example of trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. While Drupal will allow us to accomplish layouts in half a dozen different ways, we always want to follow the best practices.

After taking a look at the Jumbotron example again, we can actually break it down into more manageable and reusable components. To begin with, the Jumbotron example is to represent a homepage layout with one row for the Jumbotron and another row containing three blocks of content that float next to each other equally. When we started similarly with our Jumbotron block, we actually had all our blocks placed into our content region.

Adding regions

Regions are key to any layout in Drupal, and the common rule is that anytime...