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im searching the forums for an answer or help with my question now, so sorry if this is a repost

here's an idea of what i want to do, i wanna make my school project website:
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~zane1/403/project/www/ have ppl log in and be able to update the content in the middle under "who we are.." and "what we.." via drupal, is this possible?
ive been going over the videocast, reading tutorials, and checking out other drupal sites...

so maybe i just havent gotten to the part that goes over all this...but how the heck do you tell drupal what "parts of the webpage the user can update?

i've previously used another CMS called webyep (which is really really really easy to use) you just add a block of php code around the content you want the user to be able to update...

currently i am running drupal 4.7 locally on OSX

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elliotttt commented

You can definitely build an identical manageable site with Drupal. There are a few things you'd have to do to get it to work:

  1. You'll need to port the design to a Drupal theme here is a video on how to do that.
  2. User access settings control "who can edit what", a "node" is basically a story or page, and depending on what you set in your access control will determine who can edit content.

The simplest solution would probably be to just allow all authenticated users access to edit a single content type, which would display on various areas... in fact, that's the subject of my next video tutorial :-) Check out drupal school in a few days on how to configure a site to be edited by multiple users. Hope that helps!

Drupal might take a little longer to get started with then webyeb, but it's an extremely powerful and flexible cms, and once you get the hang of the basics it's really easy to use as well.

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zanematthew commented

wow, thank you so much...my only question left is how do i load my js and multiple css?

i am currently using 3 style sheets (for modulation) for:
1. images
2. layout
3. text

should i just combine them and place them in the 'style.css'?
also, why dont my images that are located in my 'page.tpl.php' load in my browser? do you have to call all images via the css?

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elliotttt commented

Images that are consistent between pages should probably be called via css, but inline images (or images in individual posts) can manually be placed using something like:

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zanematthew commented

so that goes into my "page.tpl.php" file right?

i am really confused as to what is going on with all these *.tpl.php files...where is my index?

if i load the page.tpl.php file from my locahost (http://localhost..) the images and js dont work
but when i load it via drag and drop (file://Library/...) the images and js work

some how the php is messing things up

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elliotttt commented

Oops Sorry, I should have been more clear:

The code example I posted would be something that would go inside an actual node post.

A page.tpl.php file is essentially your xhtml skeleton with variables used for Drupal inside of it. Loading the page.php.tpl file on its own won't do much, in your drupal install, enable the theme you are working on (make sure you're working on a test site!) so when you type in something like localhost/drupalTest, after your theme has been enabled, Drupal then pulls in the page.tpl.php file and all the other tpl.php files for that theme, which should be somewhere like drupalTest/themes/awesomeTheme

Does that make sense?

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elliotttt commented

Just to let you know, the multi-user blog video is online at theartlab.net

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zanematthew commented

in a nut shell how do i take my content from my old site and import into the drupalzied site?

im assuming it has to go into the db ?

what are the methods for this?

elliotttt’s picture

elliotttt commented

To get "Page" type pages into Drupal:

  • Install Drupal
  • Click Create Content
  • Click Page
  • In the Title field, type Overview
  • In the Body text area, type we are a group of individuals with a theorectical knowledge of Information Technology theory. with the ability to APPLY these concepts in a collective and creative manner. at times you will find techno jargon, buzz words, and meaningless rants. all of this is designed to...
  • Click Menu Settings
  • Again, Type Overview
  • Click Submit

For blogs, or storys, use those modules/content types.

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zanematthew commented

yes, i understand that....

so if i have a 300+ page website that i want to convert from a previous CMS to drupal, i'm supposed to do that about 500+ times ? : (

i know im not the only with one with this problem

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gurukripa commented

i want to import 1000s of pages..from html..and also word docs into drupal...
and i find it hard to do so..

help :)

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dnewkerk commented

You might want to have a look at http://drupal.org/project/import_html
I haven't tried it myself, but it may do the trick for you.

If you're importing from another CMS/database, there are some Drupal modules that can assist you in importing the data (some for specific CMSes, and others that can help import raw data).

Here are a few of the general ones from the modules section. I suggest you load up the modules page, filter it for Drupal 5.x, and then search for the text "import" with your browser to find any not mentioned:

http://drupal.org/project/importexportapi
http://drupal.org/project/node_import
http://drupal.org/project/user_import

For your word docs... not sure on that one. But you may be able to find an app that automatically converts your directory of word files into HTML, or better yet some raw data format that one of the above modules can work with... check google and you might find something like that.

-- Dave

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syfer_101 commented

Hello Guys,

I tried adding

on the filter html and do the style coding on the body in the edit pages... It works.... Now, our drupal site has customized icon on each pages, overriding the favicon.ico which is the drupal icon... it really works.... I also added tags and do the coding on the body but it does'nt work... Thanks for the vids who posted here... It help me a lot... Check our site: http://www.emarketingoutsource.com/eps ----> cusomized nista themes... Keep up the good work guyz..... : )