Help Moving Static Site to Drupal 5.1
Hi Guys,
I run an insurance site which I am looking to the future with and so really want to move it to a CMS. So that down the line I can add in web 2.0 functionality, and make posting content to it more straightforward.
At the moment it is a static site. Its http://www.insurancesalesman.com
It has quite a few links pointing in, so I would like to keep the urls the same as they are now. And would preferably like to have drupal integrated with vBulletin as going forward I would like to setup a forum. (I understand the vBulletin is far superior to the one built in)
I have read a lot about the different systems, and it seems that Drupal is the fastest and best from an SEO perspective. So I would like to go with that.
The only problem is that I haven't got a clue where to start with this. Either in terms of having a similar layout to the home page, and also getting the existing content over (theres a couple of hundred pages).
How would you guys go about this migration?
Regards,
Stuart
PS
Forgot to mention. The site is on a dedicated box. So I can pretty much do what I like in terms of installing scripts etc to facilitate the process.
If you want to do migration
If you want to move all stuff by yourself, you need to start from here: http://drupal.org/handbooks, "Installation and configuration" section. Bundled into Drupal distributive "readme.txt" and/or "install.txt" also will point you to right direction about first steps.
The bad news is: I hear nothing about automation of "plain-HTML -> DB-driven" content moving. May be I'm wrong, but old-fashioned "copy&paste" method is way you need to go.