Burningbird's RealTech

The final customization I added for all my sites was the menus. In all three sites, I turned on the Primary Links menu, which displays at the top. I then created an "about" page for each site, as well as added in links for the Contact form, as well as Search for Painting the Web.

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For Painting the Web, I added the Vocabulary Index pages as part of the Primary Links menu, since I have no sidebar. In RealTech, I created two custom menus, Explore and Categories, with the Vocabulary Index pages listed as entries in Categories, and Search and Tracker's Recent Posts in Explore. In addition, I've also turned on the default Book Navigation menu in the left sidebar, as well as the Navigation menu for managing content for registered users. Both of these are activated in the Blocks configuration page, though the Navigation menu displays in the Menus page once activated. The Book Navigation menu does not, because it cannot be customized.

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I'm using the Nice Menus module in Painting the Web. There is a specialized function to call when using it with the Primary links, which is embedded directly into the page.tpl.php file, replacing the existing primary links print from the Simplex2 theme.

<div id="header">
   <?php if (count($primary_links)) : ?>
     <?php 
      print theme('nice_menu_primary_links');
     ?>
   <?php endif; ?>
</div>

With the addition of the menus, the theming and customization sites was finished. At least, for now.