A block is a container used to show information in any region of one or more pages on your site. Since their contents, display region, and page placement can be modified, blocks are the primary method of visually organizing your site’s content.
Blocks on a Drupal Gardens page
The marked parts of this page are all blocks:
Blocks can be:
Standard and system blocks - Many blocks are already available on your site. Some of them are dynamic (i.e. "Recent comments", "Recent blog posts") or special system blocks ("User login", "Search"). All Drupal menus are generated as blocks.
Static or embedded content - Text, HTML, images, maps or other embedded material from the web.
Dynamic content - Modules and features such as Views, Media Gallery, and others create blocks.
Enabling some modules makes more blocks available. Check the Blocks page at Structure > Blocks to see what blocks you have available on your site at any given time.
How to create and place new blocks
Add dynamic blocks
Blocks displaying content mashups and previews can be created using Simple views . Once you have created a View with a block display, go to the Block page at Structure > Blocks to enable it by placing it in a region.
Add static blocks
Go to the Blocks page at Structure > Blocks
Click "Add new block"
Content and settings
Add block description - Displayed on the block administration page.
Add block title - Displayed to site visitors.
Add block body (content) - Using Drupal Gardens' built in WYSIWYG
Set display region - Set the block region
Set visibility - Fine-grained block placement controls.
Pages - Set which pages the block should or should not be displayed on.
Content types - Show this block only on pages that display content of the given type(s). If you don't select any content types, the block will be shown on all pages that meet your other display condition regardless of content type.
Roles
Users - Set whether users can set this block's visibility on their user account page.
Click "Add block"
How to move, place or disable a block
Move or place a block - Select a block region from the drop-down under "Region" for any block on the Blocks page at Structure > Blocks
Hide/Disable a block - Set region to "<none>" for any block on the Blocks page at Structure > Blocks to disable it.
About block regions
Regions ("block regions", "page regions", "theme Structure > Blocks . Any block can be displayed in any region on one or more pages of your site.
See your site's block regions
All Drupal Gardens themes use the same, standardized block regions. Among other benefits, this means all of your content and blocks will always be displayed on your site, no matter which theme you choose in the ThemeBuilder
To see how your site's theme is using the block regions, go to Structure > Blocks and click the link "Demonstrate block regions ([theme name])":
You'll see a display similar to this (but obviously in your site theme's colors and arrangement):
Here's another great way to see all the Drupal Gardens theme regions in one place: Visit the Drupal Gardens theme region display site at http://regions.drupalgardens.com: