This documentation describes the new design of the DDB Main portal as implemented in the Neustart Kultur project of 2022/23. All changes made to the design are to be documented here as well for future reference.


  • Page width (Seitenbreite) - covers entire content area, not to be confused with Content width
  • Content width (Contentbreite) - size of elements that are not sorted into a grid, structured around large portions of text
  • Screen width (Screenbreite) - covers entire screen of the user's device, mainly used for (background) images
  • Breakpoints:


FIZ

Cosmoblonde

Desktop

>1100

>1200

Tablet Landscape

>980

>992

Tablet Portrait

>760

>768

Mobile big

>560

<768

Mobile small

<560

-

  • Grid: when elements are sorted next to each other, their relations to each are are oriented based on a grid:
    • 50% / 50%
    • 25% / 25% / 25% / 25%
    • 33% / 33% / 33%
    • 66% / 33%
    • 33% / 66%


Cache Name

Duration

Description

institutionCache

10min

All the institutions that are later filtered in the Frontend in the Institutions Page (Map)

calendarItemCache

4h

Calendar section of DDB Startpage (On this Day)

cmsCache

1h

Sections of DDB Startpage with content from Drupal

(New in DDB & Dossiers (Little Slider - Items / Editorial Content),

News-Slider (Big Slider - vertical), 

Who we are (Module - Text))

itemCache

4h

Total number of Objects in the Object Search Rounded to millions

entityPerson

4h

Total number of Persons in the Persons Search (Deprecated)

entityOrganization

4h

Total number of Organizations in the Organization Search (Deprecated)




NPStartpageYearFrom

4h

In ZP Startpage, the year of the oldest Newspaper

NPStartpageYearTo

4h

In ZP Startpage, the year of the newest Newspaper

NPStartpageNewspapers

4h

In ZP Startpage, total number of Newspapers indexed in backend.

NPStartpageIssues

4h

In ZP Startpage, total number of Newspapers Issues indexed in backend.

NPStartpagePages

4h

In ZP Startpage, total number of Newspapers Pages indexed in backend.

NPStartpageDataProviders

4h

In ZP Startpage, total number of Newspapers Data Providers in backend.

 



DDB Header Menu

Manual reset

DDB Header Menu (Navigation - Main Menu / Side Menu - 2024)

DDB Footer Menu

Manual reset

DDB Footer Menu  (Footer - 2025)

ZP Header Menu

Manual reset

ZP Header Menu

ZP Footer Menu

Manual reset

ZP Footer Menu

Pages:

Global Elements

Favicons

  • design:

Header


Component
1Header - 2024
2Navigation - Main Menu / Side Menu - 2024
3Search Module - 2024

Footer


Component
1Footer - 2025

Database

Search result page


Component
1Options - Items / Editorial Content - 2025
2

List View - Items / Tile View - Items 

List View - Editorial Content / Tile View - Editorial Content

Object page


Component
1Navigation - Breadcrumb
2Title and Description - Object
3Mediaviewer
4Accordion - Object
5Metadata - Object
6Sharing
7Little Slider - Items / Editorial Content
8Hierarchy - Object
9Scroll to Top Button

Person page


Component
1Navigation - Breadcrumb
2Title and Description - Person / not registered Organisation
3Mediaviewer - Person / not registered Organisation
4Little Slider - Items / Editorial Content
5Metadata - Person / Organisation
6Sharing
7Scroll to Top Button

not-registered Organisation page


Component
1Navigation - Breadcrumb
2Title and Description - Person / not registered Organisation
3Mediaviewer - Person / not registered Organisation
4Metadata - Person / Organisation
5Sharing
6Scroll to Top Button

registered Organisation page


Component
1Navigation - Breadcrumb
2Title and Description - registered Organisation
3Mediaviewer - Map
4Little Slider - Items / Editorial Content
5Metadata - Person / Organisation
6Hierarchy - Location
7Sharing
8Scroll to Top Button
  • design:

MyDDB

Account Overview


Component
1Navigation - Breadcrumb
2Headline
3User Data
4Navigation - Content
5Little Slider - Items / Editorial Content (Favorites)
6Little Slider - Saved Searches
7

Scroll to Top Button


Component
1Headline
2User Data
3Headline + Button, leads to Lightbox - Account - Delete

Change Password


Component
1Navigation - Breadcrumb
2Headline
3User Data
4Navigation - Content
  • design:

(Public) Favorites List


Component
1Navigation - Breadcrumb
2Title and Description - Public Favorites - 2022
3Filters - Favorites - 2022
4Options - Favorites - 2022
5List View - Favorites - 2022


Component
1

Title and Description - Public Favorites - 2025

2Options - Favorites - 2025
3List View - Favorites - 2025
4Filters - Favorites - 2025

Saved Searches


Component
1Navigation - Breadcrumb
2List View - Saved Searches - 2022



Component
1Headline
2Options - Saved Searches - 2025
3List View - Saved Searches - 2025

Editorial Content

Overview Pages

Dossiers


Component
1Header Image - generic
2Navigation - Breadcrumb
3Introtext
4Filters - editorial
5Masonry Grid
6Sharing
7Scroll to Top Button

Blog


Component
1Header Image - generic
2Navigation - Breadcrumb
3Introtext
4List View - Editorial Content / Tile View - Editorial Content
5Sharing
6Scroll to Top Button
  • merged with "Aktuelles" and "Wir sind die DDB":

Games


Component
1Header Image - generic
2Navigation - Breadcrumb
3Introtext
4Filters - editorial
5Masonry Grid
6Sharing
7Scroll to Top Button

Virtual Exhibitions


Component
1Big Slider - horizontal
2Navigation - Breadcrumb
3

Headline + Introtext 

4Filters - editorial
5List View - Editorial Content / Tile View - Editorial Content
6Sharing
7Scroll to Top Button

Content pages

Dossier


Component
1Header Image - specific
2Navigation - Breadcrumb
3Headline + Introtext 
4Masonry Grid
5Sharing
6Scroll to Top Button

Article


Component
1Header Image - specific
2Navigation - Breadcrumb
3Introtext
4Navigation - Content
5Drupal Components - Text & Media
6Drupal Components - Text
7Teaser Banner
8Drupal Components - Quote
9Drupal Components - Text
10Image Gallery
11Drupal Components - Text
12Drupal Components - Image Gallery Slider
13Sharing
14Scroll to Top Button

Game


Component
1Header Image - specific
2Navigation - Breadcrumb
3Introtext
4Games
5Accordion - Editorial Content (variation)
6Sharing
7Scroll to Top Button

Gallery


Component
1Header Image - specific
2Navigation - Breadcrumb
3Headline + Introtext 
4Masonry Grid
5Sharing
6Scroll to Top Button

Virtual Exhibition

Virtual Exhibitions have their own frontend.

Other

Startpage


Component
1Little Slider - Items / Editorial Content (Recent Additions)
2Big Slider - vertical
3On this Day
4Little Slider - Items / Editorial Content (Dossiers)
5Module - Explore
  • Changes to order:
  • Capitalization:

Institutions list


Component
1Header Image - generic
2Navigation - Breadcrumb
3Introtext
4Filters - Institutions
5Filters - alphabetical
6Options - Institutions
7List View - Institutions / Map View - Institutions
8Sharing
9Scroll to Top Button

Calendar Archive


Component
1Navigation - Breadcrumb
2Title and Description - Calendar
3Filters - Calendar
4List View - Calendar
5Sharing
6Scroll to Top Button

Newsletter Archive


Component
1

Header Image - generic

2Navigation - Breadcrumb
3Navigation - Content
4Content (not Drupal)
5Scroll to Top Button
  • design:
  • functionality:

API-Access


Component
1Headline
2Content (not Drupal)
  • design:
  • to be removed?

FAQ


Component
1Header Image - generic
2Accordion - Editorial Content
3Sharing Links
4Scroll to Top Button