The Drupal Block Module
What are Blocks? You can think of drupal blocks as "boxes of website content" that appear throughout the pages of your drupal website. That content can be as little as a 240 pixel wide picture and title text placed in the side bar of one or more of your website's pages or as big as a block containing a bunch of photo galleries or a group of slideshow videos or pictures. In effect, drupal blocks can hold anything you want them to hold. You control where the blocks will appear using the block configuration page.
Things that can go in drupal blocks:
- Slideshows
- Photo Galleries
- Quick Tabs
- Drupal views - these are database querries
- Navigation, Primary, and Secondary menus
- Header photos and header slideshows
- Latest photos from a photo gallery
- Panels
- Login form
- Contact Us form
As you can see, pretty much anything that you might want to display in your website can be displayed and controlled on the page using the Blocks module of drupal.