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By panoramical1 on
Hello
I have never used an open source CMS before. I have always written my own because I used to think that every site is unique and it needs its own adaptations. But apparently I am wrong.
I stumbled on Drupal. And I want to make a new website I have designed to use it. The link is here http://sr.panoramical.co.uk. I want that site available in Drupal. I have understood that I need to basically make a theme to emulate that design. I originally thought that all I'd need to do was to pull information from the MySQL using PHP commands as I have done before. But I am told this is not the way to do as Drupal does not work like that. You must use themes.
I have searched over the internet for a decent guide on how to do this but I haven't been able to find one, and it is very frustrating. I am a competent CSS programmer and you will notice my design uses no tables. Would I be able to make a design exactly like the one I linked to to fit into drupal?
Thanks
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Yes, you can use any design.
Have you read the Theme Documentation: http://drupal.org/theme-guide
The sample chapter from the Pro Drupal Development is a good introduction to the Drupal theme system (although this is for Drupal 5, the basics remain the same)
http://www.apress.com/book/downloadfile/3486
I seem to remember this has an example of how to go about building a theme from scratch from an html / css page.
A quick glance at your site tells me you would probably want to use the http://drupal.org/project/nice_menus module.
The rest of it should be quite straight forward though.
You should be able to turn
You should be able to turn your current html/css design into a drupal theme pretty easily. In addition to the theme guide prbass linked about I would take a look at:
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