By BLaZuRE on

I would like to know if Drupal would be what I need to use as a CMS in order to make it easy for people to edit a website. A design has already been created and would like to use a CMS so that other people may go in and make changes as necessary (and don't have to figure out what the markup and stylesheets mean. If necessary.

To make it clear, I do not want to use a template and would like to use something that was already created by a program (I have the HTML and CSS). Can I do this with Drupal or am I forced into one of the templates? Are there any recommendations for another CMS such as Joomla?

Thank you.

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imranweb’s picture

imranweb commented

In order to to use Drupal for pre-built website, you need to integrate the pre-made HTML/CSS in Drupal theme.
There are some basic work to be done to start with Drupal.

-Imran

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jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
commented

Yes, it can be done. Drupal is an MVC framework. This means that the content is generated before being outputted through a themeing layer that outputs it as HTML (or XML or JSON or whatever you want). This means that you can create whichever templates you want/need to theme the output in whichever way you want.

Now that said, Drupal is quite complex, and can be a real headache to learn. It's not like you can step into it and be using it three days after you install it. I think my first site took me 4-5 months for a relatively straightforward site without a lot of crazy functionality.

But if you get a book on building Drupal themes, you should be able to work your way through it and get a good handle on what's going on.

Contact me to contract me for D7 -> D10/11 migrations.