Posted by Silman on January 15, 2013 at 7:12am
I am currently building a static website from just HTML, CSS, and Javascript that i know. I plan to have a blog page but I want the blog page to be controlled via Drupal so it will update and archive easily. I know i can use drupal for all pages of my website, but i want my homepage to remain static and I feel that if i use drupal for every page it will be hard to control that.
Is it possible to use drupal to control just a single subsection of my entire website?
Also how difficult is it to make then entire website drupal but only have the blog section update with new posts?
Thanks!
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Yes, you can absolutely do
Yes, you can absolutely do what you want.
It would be helpful, if you get some idea about theming in Drupal.
-Imran
I was also wondering how
I was also wondering how exactly web design is hindered using drupal. I see that in Drupal you have to use a drupal theme or else the content management doesn't work. Does this mean i am limited to what my websites can look like and that all the CSS i have learned is useless?
How can i design my own website with CSS and have drupal still manage its content?
Design is not hindered. You
Design is not hindered. You can make almost anything in Drupal, and you need to know css to do it, as well as knowing something about Drupal theming (or about modules like Panels which take over theming).
Learning Drupal is a big job (to get really good probably takes years rather than days, but a bit of hard work over a few weeks will take you a long way), and Drupal takes a certain amount of maintenance. If your only interest is to add some blogging features to your site, I would use Wordpress for the blogging page. However, if you have your own reasons for wanting to learn and join the wonderful (and often frustrating and time-consuming) world of Drupal, then it is safe to say that once you have spent some time and effort learning it you can get Drupal to do everything you could possibly want from a website.
Digit Professionals
You are asking about using
You are asking about using HTML and CSS for the front page and using Drupal for the rest.
You could do this in several ways but the best way would be to install Drupal and then create your own theme using your own HTML and CSS. You then set the site up so that your home page uses your theme (and therefore your html and css) and all the rest of the site uses one of the other themes.
A second, and easier, way would be to install Drupal and a basic theme, and then create a sub theme using your own css. This way Drupal would be running your whole site, including the front page, but every page would be using a sub-theme based upon your own css.
A third way would be to install Drupal 7 and use the 'Stark' theme that comes with it. 'Stark' displays your site but without any style. It has no page template file only a layout.css file with only a dozen or so lines. You could simply replace these with your own css.
Drupal Manuals
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The simplest way is to install and configure drupal they way you want (including a theme), and then just create a page--front.tpl.php in your theme. It have have whatever static html and css you want.
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