No matter what website you visit, every website on the web will have the following:
1) A Header with a logo and primary navigation
2) A Footer with a copyright statement and links to legal pages
3) A sidebar with popular posts, newsletter form, and other quick links
And a theme is responsible for letting you build all these three areas of a website (including the content in these areas).
A theme provides something called “Widget Areas” to help you build content for these areas of the website.
When they change the theme, some clients wonder why their sidebars and footers are messed up.
You now know the WHY!
Also, although every theme supports a header and footer, some themes do not support having sidebars.
So, if you want to use a sidebar on your website, you should check whether a particular theme supports it.
That’s all for this lesson.
In the next lesson, we will learn how about the types of themes.
