Firstly, my apologies if this is not the correct forum.
I'm new to Drupal - as in a few days. I am used to hard-coding a site or using tools like Dreamweaver. The disconnect I need help with on the one hand is the development approach where I can place anything anywhere on a site by just a few lines of code. And on the other hand the fluid/dynamic approach of Drupal where placing an entity, for example an image, is dependent on a seemingly myriad of contextual considerations.
I've worked through a couple of books and several tutorials. I can create calendars, workflows; I can use taxonomy, views, blocks. But what I need is one starting point common to both the coding methodology and the Drupal way. If I have just that one point I can translate what I know from my bad old days of hard-coding into a new Drupal utopia. It's a matter of converting 'know how' into understanding.
Now, after that long preamble, what I'd like to know is how (without hard-coding or CSS) to place an image 100px from the top of the screen and 200px from the side.
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Do you want that image to show up on every page or just some pages? Will this image be static? If not how often will it change?
There are numerous ways to accomplish this, depending on what you need.
There's the rub
Where new users like myself flounder is that something in HTML that is very simple - like putting an image at a specific location on a page - turns into a web of other considerations with Drupal. It's seems that Drupal requires a whole new conceptual approach that I am failing to grasp.
I really don't have a specific requirement. That, I guess, is my problem.
I much appreciate your assistance. So for the sake of the example, let's put an image at the specific location on a single page that never changes. I know how to get an image into a custom block using WYSIWYG etc.; I just can't control it from there - either the image or the block.
thanks
Have you tried using the
Have you tried using the Insert Module? All you have to do with this module is create a field and in the manage manage fields change the format to hidden. Then when editing or creating your page you can upload an image and insert it into your content. Then you can control it with your css.
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If you don't have to move/change the image I would just hard-code it into the template file (page.tpl.php).