Site Templates in Acquia Source powered by Drupal provide a comprehensive starting point for website creation. Users can customize these templates to match their business needs, and get a flexible layout system that can be modified without requiring coding skills.
Site Templates help you to:
- Accelerate site creation with pre-configured components and content structures.
- Ensure governance and compliance through consistent configurations.
- Reduce development time and eliminate repetitive setup tasks.
Template types¶
Acquia Source provides the following options when you start creating a new site:
Blank Site: Provides a clean slate to build your site from the basics.
Acquia Site Template: Provides a library of pre-built website components to rapidly create content-rich, visually-engaging pages.
For detailed instructions on how to create a new site from a template, visit Creating a new site.
Acquia Site Template offers headers, footers, and navigation menus to hero sections and common content layouts. In addition, it provides a robust foundation for building websites with Acquia Source.
All components are available in the drag-and-drop Experience Builder and are fully responsive by default. They ensure that your site maintains an excellent appearance and operates seamlessly on mobile devices, tablets, and desktops.
Each component is easily configurable without the need to write any code. For more advanced customization, you have full access to the underlying code through a browser-based code editor. The components are built with Tailwind CSS and JavaScript. They are developer-friendly and can be tailored to match your site’s unique requirements and branding.
The Sections and Components included in Acquia Site Template are:
- Header bar
- Menu
- Footer bar
- Hero component
- Content components
- Cards
- Testimonials
- Profile cards
- Logo components
- Feature components