How to Create a new region in Drupal 7
Here is the list of operations to do:
1. Add ‘regions[your_new_region_name] = your_new_regon_friendlyname’ to the info file.
2. Add
.region-your_new_region_name {/*css snippets*/}
to your css theme main file.
3. Add
<?php
print render($page['copyright']);
?>
to your page.tpl.php file.
4. Clear all your cache by section Structure–>”Performance”
5. Insert a block in the region that will appear in the section: Blocks