Part 1 - Drupal Theming - Panels & Panels Everywhere HD
Why Drupal Answers Stack Exchange recommends it
Drupal Stack Exchange answerers point people to it as a starter walkthrough when someone needs to build custom page layouts or override node display with Panels.
Recommended by 2 people across 3 different months, 2011 to 2016.
What it is
A 13-minute screencast by Joe Canti (cojanti), the first of five parts on theming Drupal sites with the Panels and Panels Everywhere modules. It covers Panels basics, an overview of both modules and an introduction to Panels templating, using a real tree surgery website as the worked example.
What people said
Recommends nmillin · 2011-08 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “How to get Panels to override node with "no extras"”
The problem is (I think) that when you added content (Whichever Variant -> Content -> Gear -> add content) you clicked Node and then Node content. Node Content will display all of the content of the node (Title, Body, and all Fields). If you just want to display the body choose Node body. Then in another Pane (Panel Biggest -> Region -> Pane Smallest) you can add your other fields. Here's a video that talks about Panels and Panels Everywhere and can help show this in action. [this video] Hope this helps!
Recommends nmillin · 2011-10 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “Creating a complex home page layout”
Tutorials on Panels: [this video] [LINK] The nodeone.se link will go more in depth, so I suggest starting with the YouTube link. The YouTube tutorial is D6, but it is the same in D7. NodeOne.se has Tons of tutorials that have helped me.
Recommends bechtold · 2016-01 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “Add custom text to certain pages”
I would use panels and panels everywhere [LINK] for that. You can actually just create custom text panes and add to any page. To get started with these two modules I can recommend the videos by cojanti [this video] Block and Context as mentioned above is also possible but we never use that since blocks are not deployable so easy.
Cites Jérôme Verstrynge · 2012-02 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “Which type of page to use for a customized front page in Drupal 7?”
I am watching the following tutorial [this video] on panels. The author is creating a content type for 'Home page', and later, a node view variant of node templates. He mentions that he is not 100% about this way of proceeding, but he is used to it. The more I learn about this subject and the more I try to replicate this approach, the less I am convinced by it. Creating a content type for a home page seems like an heresy. The panels dashboard offers to create panel pages, but also landing pages. It seems to me like a landing page would be enough (after setting it as the default front page), but would a panel page offer more benefit in this case?