New Banner Region for Masthead Images

With Beale Street, we're introducing a new region called 'banner' that is designed to display images below the masthead of the page. We're using it on the demo site to display the panoramic guitar neck photo (courtesy of stock.xchnge vi.) If you choose not to publish anything to this region, it simply collapses out of sight.

The banner region works best with fixed-width sites. Set the 'Used fixed-width' option on the theme configuration page, and set the 'fixed-width size' field to the width of the image.

Because the banner area is a standard Drupal region, you can choose to display it on every page, only on specific pages, or only for a single page. You can even have different banner images for different pages. Simply create a block for each image, and then publish each block on the pages you want it displayed on.

Like our previous themes, we also supply a header region to publish blocks to. By publishing to this region and using a bit of CSS, it's pretty easy to replace the masthead with your own image.