Beale Street Features

Beale Street has plenty of features to make your Drupal site look great. Check out all of the things that Beale Street has to offer:

• 4 Built-In Color Styles - Beale Street comes with four beautiful built in color styles.
• 18 Fully Collapsible Regions - By publishing different blocks to different regions on different pages, you can create an endless combination of great looking page layouts.
• Suckerfish Menus - Beale Street has built-in Son-of-Suckerfish Menu Support for drop-down menus that work in any browser!
• Flexible Widths - Beale Street can be configured for fluid or fixed widths using the easy configuration panel. When using fluid widths, the content and page layout automatically resize to fill the user's screen.
• Adjustable Sidebars - Beale Street lets you specify the width of the sidebars on the theme configuration screen. You can even specify different widths for each sidebar.
• Configurable Font Family - Beale Street lets you select from a list of built-in font choices so that you can customize your site's appearance. And if you don't like the built-in font choices, you can specify your own.
• Simple Setup - Options in Beale Street are super easy to configure. The most frequently used options are provided in a form on the standard template administration page. No need to fumble with CSS and PHP code changes.
• IE PNG Fix - Some versions Internet Explorer do not display transparent PNG files correctly. Beale Street includes a popular fix for this bug, so that your site looks great from any browser.
• W3C Valid - Beale Street validates to XMTHL and CSS according to the W3C standards.
• Compatible - Beale Street is compatible with most modern browsers including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera.
• Beautiful Artwork - Beale Street makes it easy to produce a beautiful Drupal site.

Beale Street Regions

With 18 collapsible regions, you can create an endless combination of page layouts.

Beale Street Regions are grouped into collapsible sections that share thematic elements (like background color and font styles). The User1, User2, and User3 regions are the blue (or orange or green or red) blocks below the menu. We collectively call these three regions Section1. Similarly, User4, User5, and User6 make up Section2. User7 through User12 make up Section3 and Section4.

In order to display a Section, simply publish a block to one of the User Regions in that Section. If you publish to only one User Region in a Section, that Region will fill the width of the page. Publish to two or to all three User Regions in a Section, and the Regions will split the space accordingly.

Similarly, if you publish content to the Left or Right Sidebars, they will appear. Publish nothing to one of the sidebars and it collapses out of sight. And the same applies to the Banner Region below the Masthead.

Using Suckerfish Menus

Beale Street has integrated Suckerfish dropdown menus that are compatible with most modern browsers. The suckerfish menus are located below the banner, just like the primary and secondary links. You will probably not want to use the Suckerfish menus and the primary links at the same time, because it will look a bit odd. To use the Beale Street suckerfish menus on your site, follow these simple steps:

• Enable the Suckerfish menus by selecting the 'Use Suckerfish Menus' checkbox on the theme configuration page.
• If you don't have one already, create your menu structure.
• Enable the 'Expand' checkbox for all of the parent menu items.
• Publish the menu block to the Suckerfish_Menu region
• Disable your primary and secondary links if necessary.