Changing the homepage in Drupal 7.17

Posted by drupalnewbie01 on February 10, 2013 at 12:52am

I had someone build a Drupal website for me with a customized homepage. I have a new homepage design that I would like to implement. The new homepage was built using HTML/CSS and it's completely new. Is there an easy way to implement the new homepage design? I have sign up and login fields as well that need to be linked correctly.

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Posted by VM on February 10, 2013 at 1:52am

you can implement a custom page--front.tpl.php file in your theme.

can you explain further?is

Posted by drupalnewbie01 on February 10, 2013 at 4:09am

Does the theme affect only the visitor homepage? I don't want to want to change anything else.
is there another website where I can find more information? I'm very new to Drupal

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Posted by VM on February 10, 2013 at 4:55am

yes. page--front.tpl.php is only for the front page. Hence why it's called page--front.tpl.php. The theme developer documentation here on drupal.org should aid.

What if I have sign up and

Posted by drupalnewbie01 on February 10, 2013 at 5:10am

What if I have sign up and sign in pages on the homepages? Are those easy to configure with a new webpage design and the backend?

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Posted by tryitonce on February 10, 2013 at 9:52am

Hi, drupalnewbie01,
you are asking very detailed questions that are all explained in the many pages, manuals, articles and so on here. It seems to me that you need to make an effort to read up and understand a bit how Drupal works first.
You need to understand Drupal in principal, themes, modules, editing and how html is added - through the theme and in editing pages. CSS is only added in the theme.
You will also not find a short cut to setting up a test side and experimenting .....

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