By fiyaz on

Hi All,

I downloaded and installed Drupal and its running.

Now I am wondering how to create pages/templates etc and see the results.

Can anyone help me in getting started and see results.

Thanks,
Fiyaz.

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crac’s picture

crac commented

There are handbooks about these issues for beginners:

- End user guide: http://drupal.org/node/6261
- Theme dev guide: http://drupal.org/node/509

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GianniB310’s picture

GianniB310 commented

Hi all. I'm just getting up and running with Drupal. I have over 6 years web development experience, along with ASP and PHP development as well.

I was able to set up Drupal, create my categories, and start entering data for my various sections (I am building a personal website with various sections - news, bio, links, downloads etc...). I also understand the way taxonomy works too.

So with all my information inputted, now what? I have a site skeleton done in HTML and don't know what to do from here? Do I need to create seperate drupal template pages for each section and it's detail pages? Or do I have to use a theme?

Sorry for the newbie question but any help will be greatly appreciated.

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

That depends on what you want to do. If you want to affect the look and feel of the site then that would be the theme. I suggest phpTemplate based.
http://drupal.org/node/509

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sangamreddi’s picture

sangamreddi commented

With PHP template you can create different pages for different section. suppose you want different style for book-

create node-book.tpl.php

file and put it in your php template them.
you can use argumets for different sections suppose you want to have different home page - paste this code in the top of the page.tpl.php file and create differnet template for the page

if ($is_front) {
  include('home.tpl.php');
  return;
}

feel free to contact me

note: you need to install PHPtempalte themeengine and phptheme to work.

Sunny
www.gleez.com

GianniB310’s picture

GianniB310 commented

sounds like PHP templating is the way to go. Fair enough. I'll research it.

I built this site, http://www.djlanguage.com/language/ in ASP/SQL and would like to convert it to a Drupal system. Most areas are blog type areas with text and the occassional image or media attachment. Drupal should suffice for this type of app correct?

Moving forward, for each section landing page and detail page, I will essentially have to create those pages myself (PHP) and use the PHP templating calls to display my data that was entered in Drupal?

thanks.

-Raj

sangamreddi’s picture

sangamreddi commented

Yes U can do it with drupal and php tempalte. You can have multiple themes for blog if you use Blog theme module. I mean each blog user have different theme if you enable multiple themes.

If you need any assistance from my side feel free to contact me.

Sunny
www.gleez.com