By Beren-1 on

For the moment my website http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/ is completely static; and i'm seeking to make it more dynamic.
I wish to be able to convert the current site towards a drupal site. Yet being able to write html, css, ... i just don't seem to be able to build a theme that works for me. First of all i'm a bit confused about the menu system. I can easely recreate the menu and submenu, and 2nd level submenus: but how do i need to link these? The 2nd level menu does not even appear at all.

I want to know if it is possible to recreate my current sites look & feel in a theme. I do not mind having to remake every single page and then link the menu's to the correct nodes afterwards. Allthough my site is over 1000 pages it will be a huge job!
Yet i need to know if it is possible at all?

I installed drupal here: http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/drupal/ and have been playing around a bit. Can someone help me out? I'm willing to pay for help, since i have not a lot of time myself. I would rather like to have my time spent on writing articles for the site then to rebuild it. So if there are some experts who can show me how to proceed PLEASE help me!

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Wojtek-1’s picture

Wojtek-1 commented

About second level links: They work only if the hierarchy is respected. Meaning a node (page) must be another node's child.

Recreating your site is possible, but it'll take lots and lots of time :)

Beren-1’s picture

Beren-1 commented

How do you 'respect' the hierarchy? Does that mean a sort of numbering system, like node2 has childs node2a, node2b,... and if so how do you create this. The system seems to create the notes automatically.

The dream is to recreate, but i'm ofcourse open for improvements! If it can be done better and easier, i'd be very happy. Just need to know how to start on the theme... I don't mind spending and copying all the pages that exist into the new system; yet the result has to be better then what i have now of course.

Grammarian’s picture

Grammarian commented

I have tried to adapt drupal themes to match html site templates here http://blog.ldcomp.com - the main site www.ldcomp.com is a purchased template from Allwebco and the base theme I used to match it is News Portal. I think it could use some work but the site owner is pleased with it. Also here: http://blog.brooklynbusinessbase.com where I used Andreas01 but I am having some trouble figuring out which of the css files does what since there are multiple css files for the theme - I need to make it fixed width or fix the way the right side floats around.

I don't know if you could duplicate your exact look but you could probably come pretty close if you know css better than I do.

Jean Gazis