Readers of the Drupal for Publishers know that Drupal lacks a native system for associating different page layouts for different sections or pages on a site. Sub-layouts are typically implemented with conditional logic in the template code (page.tpl.php). The Drupal Panels module puts this control in the administrative interface and is becoming widely used within the Drupal community. To learn more, check out GotDrupal’s excellent video tutorial on Drupal Panels. As you can see from the video, the Panels user interface is quite powerful but is also very complicated because you have to create these rules to determine under what conditions a layout should display. You still probably want a developer or well trained administrator to do the work on a staging environment and then migrate the configurations to the production environment.
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