The Panels module provides control and ease-of-use in laying out content on your site's pages: allowing you to design custom layouts (or use pre-built ones) and drag-and-drop content onto the regions of that layout. Panels overcomes many of the limitations in Drupal core's blocks and theme layout systems, and allows you to, for example, easily create multi-region home pages, or override system pages like nodes and taxonomy listings.
Among its many other features, Panels also allows content in one region to be "aware" of content in another -- to allow for contextual decision-making that, for example, would allow a Related Items sidebar block to "know" what the main item on the page is [that it should be relating to.]
This meeting will provide an overview of Panels and demonstrations of easy-to-use but powerful functionality.
Learn more about the Panels module on its drupal.org project page: http://drupal.org/project/panels.
Brant Schlatzer and I will be presenting.
Please RSVP on Meetup.com
