Alternative to panels Is there any alternative to Panels that can be used for smaller websites where Panels may be a overkill?
I recently took up DP development again, haven't worked with DP7 for approx a year now, did lots of work on DP7 earlier.
When settings up a new site I always feel blocks are sufficient, if only the configuration had been made &quot;correct&quot; from the beginning - sorry for being biased.
But is the only alternative to blocks full blown Panels and mini panels if you want to be able to configure blocks differently depending on the the context in which they appear?
Update
after having tested Context and Display Suite I have to admit they fit perfectly! As stated by @j-reynolds in his comment, the Display Suite makes it possible to create column based layouts in which you can determine what data you want to see eg. splitting your node into a 2 column stacked view where body is in the left region and tags in the right, title goes into the header region.
Using the Context module you can control which blocks or regions are being shown based on eg. term view or node view.
Combining the 2 and you have something easy to work with and manageable without going full blown Panels.
Both modules can do a lot more, I am just mentioning a few of the options.
Check out Context.


  Context allows you to manage contextual conditions and reactions for
  different portions of your site. You can think of each context as
  representing a "section" of your site. For each context, you can
  choose the conditions that trigger this context to be active and
  choose different aspects of Drupal that should react to this active
  context.
  
  Think of conditions as a set of rules that are checked during page
  load to see what context is active. Any reactions that are associated
  with active contexts are then fired.