I've got what's called HTML Kit as an html editor and I can view source to see my template code. There is a button in the editor that will allow me to upload changes to the Template but I don't want to tinker around with that until I know what I'm doing.

So this brings me to the topic of this post. How do I get into my Drupal Template?

http://ejimshannon.com/

Thanks

Jim

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envaneo’s picture

where is the Template, and how do I access it?

Jim

sepeck’s picture

A more basic question.... Which theme are you using?
Information on this and more can be found inthe Drupal handbook.
http://drupal.org/node/509

For 4.6 Blue Marine, I would suggest looking at xTemplate based themes.

For 4.7, you will be looking at phpTemplate based themes.

-sp
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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envaneo’s picture

how do I know which version of Drupal I have?

Thanks for the link

Jim

sepeck’s picture

Last paragraph
http://drupal.org/node/27362

-sp
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

envaneo’s picture

Okay how do I find the
CHANGELOG.txt at
http://ejimshannon.com/
Drupal isn't hosted on my site but on another server.

Thanks

Jim

sepeck’s picture

At the root of your Drupal install directory. I have to assume you have some way to access your directories; ssh, ftp, backups?

-sp
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

envaneo’s picture

I have version 4.6.3
but the direcotry is on another server hosting my domain name.
can I still access the Template?

thanks

Jim

envaneo’s picture

having trouble finding the Template. I think my site is hosted on an outside server hosting my domain name or can I access the Template from my asministration?

Jim

sepeck’s picture

You may want to review the themeing concepts
http://drupal.org/node/11774

-sp
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

zirvap’s picture

In your Admin >> Settings >> Themes you can choose between themes which are installed already. A theme will usually have its own template (although several themes can use identical templates, and only differ in CSS).

If you want to do changes to an existing template (or theme), or if you want to download additional themes, you need to get to wherever your drupal files are and put additional files there. BTW, you need that to be able to install new modules as well, so you're likely to need that sooner or later.

BTW, there might be some confusion about terminology here. A template is (quick detour to the terminology to make sure I'm not spouting nonsense)

A HTML-writer-readable file that is mostly HTML with special codes to substitute in values provided by a engine.

A theme is a collection of files, both templates and CSS files, which together determine the look of your site. If what you want to do is change how the site looks (for instance change colours, fonts, background images), you can usually just tinker about in CSS files. If you want to change the structure (if, for instace, some specific headings are h2 but you want them to be h1) you'll need to get into the template.

envaneo’s picture

but I have no idea where my Drupal files are. I can get to admin, themes and configure and that's about it. Where do I go from there?
http://ejimshannon.com/admin/themes/settings/bluemarine
this link is as far as I can go.

Thanks for the response.

Jim

silverwing’s picture

How did you get the files up in the first place? From your other responses, I doubt you did it yourself (otherwise, you'd know where all the files are.) If a friend or a hosting provider did it for you, find out from them how to get it. (Probably ftp, or if they have a cpanel control panel option, that would be good to.)

If you can't get into it to find your theme, you then cant' install modules. Basically, it's a waste of time.

Find out.

~silverwing

envaneo’s picture

somewhere. My ex boss/manager from where I work (now hosting my domain name) installed Drupal on my computer (or on his server?) I'm not sure which. I was on phpnuke prior but nuke didn't seem to work for me. The only contact I have with him is private message on his webhosting service. I don't have a phone but this form of communication works well.

Is Drupal free? Could he have a volume liscense that allows him to let me use Drupal and other cms's? I'll be PMing him about this right now.

Thanks

silverwing’s picture

Make sure you get your username/password that your host (ex-boss - hope you're still on good terms with him) assigned to your account. You'll need this to ftp files to your site.

and drupal is free.

envaneo’s picture

Yes we are on good terms. I bought my last computer from his company and a few years later when I got the W/Me Blue "screen of death" he went out of his way to install W/98 and tried to salvage as much data as he could. When my wife's cat pissed on my monitor he gave me a new monitor. He's giving me free domain hosting as long as I post on his forum once in awhile. He's a good guy and these days he's busy with his own web hosting company at One shot design.

Btw, he gave me the links into the Drupal files, so I'll be working on my website over the weekend. Lots of fun ;)

I have the origional usename and pasword here so i'm okay.

Btw, how do I upgrade to the most recent version of Drupal when I'm ready?

Thanks.

Jim

envaneo’s picture

I was directed to go to publich_html/modules. There are a nice list of modules to work with. I need to know the following if you can help please:

1.) how do I access the CSS area?
2.) how do I change a title in a block that will take the viewer to a page?
3.) how do I add content to that page?

I hope that isn't a lot to ask for.

Thanks

Jim

venkat-rk’s picture

Log in with your username and password to get into your drupal install. Unless you do this, you will get nowhere. No amount of fiddling with public_html/modules through FTP will help.

And, frankly, you should at least read the Bryght How-tos before your begin building your site with drupal. Otherwise, you will simply be wasting your time:
http://support.bryght.com/adminguide

envaneo’s picture

but can I run Drupal on my own computer?

Do I need a server to Run Drupal?

What are the min systems requierments to run Drupal?