Hello guys, this is the first time I've needed to use a CMS and I"m leaning towards Drupal over wordpress because it seems more powerful and scalable overall. I just have a few noob questions. The easiest one right out the bat would be, can you edit the HTML files easily in DRUPAL? One thing I'm used to doing is testing out web pages locally, and just FTPing them over to my webhost. How easy is it to edit the HTML or CSS of the modules in the site? Like say, I wanted to change the background graphic of the header.
Second of all, how exactly do I port my site to drupal? So I have my html and css files for all the different sections of the site. How does this work? Do I have to make it into a theme or is there some other way? What if I have sections that are not completely designed yet, can I work incrementally or do I have to finish the entire site THEN create a theme out of it?
Thank you.
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With most CMS type systems, themes and content are separate items. You can convert a standard html/css based theme into a drupal theme. See http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode24 for a video describing the process.
How you port the site depends on the site. For simple sites I usually just enter the content into drupal manually. You can also use the feeds module (to import content via CSV files) or the migrate module (requires coding, usually for complex sites).
And since content and theme are separate, you can work on both in parallel. And no, you don't have to finish it and do it all at once.
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