By trantt on

I was successfully created the first admin user but other than that, I've no idea what to do next:

1. Where can I download a free css template that I can plug into drupal (testing purposes)
2. Can you show me how to plug the test page(s) (step 1) into drupal?
3. How come there weren't any node treeI (http://localhost:8080/drupal/?q=user/1, http://localhost:8080/drupal/?q=node/add, etc...) on my basic drupal page? If it wasn't because of this website, I wouldn't know ?q=user/1, ?q=node/add are about...

Thank you for your help.
trantt

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oadaeh commented

For item 1, there are 4 themes installed. Go to ?q=admin/themes to see them and to ?q=admin/themes/settings to configure them. Also, there are lots of user contributed themes at http://drupal.org/project/Themes.

For item 2, you just copy the theme's files into the theme directory of your Drupal installation's base directory. This page has the details about how to do that: http://drupal.org/node/456

I'm not entirely sure what you mean for item 3, so I don't think I'll be much help, but I think what you want is the navigation menu which is on the left-hand side. I'm assuming you have 4 items:

create content
my account
administer
log out

I believe the administer item is the one you want.

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JohnOB commented

Coming out of the woodwork, I know. But, I would like to have my front page look more like a static page (shoot me) and have the rich functionality running within the site. How do I make my old index.html page the entry page to my drupal powered site?

Yep...have played with the themes - can't even get my logo loaded to brand the site.

Anybody willing to coach me through it? or point me to some very simple step by steps? I'm game, and reseaonably quick on the uptake - but also not a techie so the language can be a barrier.

Any help most appreciated. In return, I am quite willing to develop some documentation aimed at the newbie, novice user.

JohnOB

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heine commented

You can make a page Create content > page (node/add/page) and note it's URL after submitting. The content of the page could be taken from your old index.html.

Then in Administer > Settings (admin/settings) use the url as frontpage (eg. node/1).

That will allow you to have menu's and blocks on the frontpage. If you want to use your old index.html the most flexible solution is to use the frontpage module.

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JohnOB commented

Many (many) thx for the front_page module advice. I have installed it, and saved my old html as the preferred frontpage, but get the following error when testing. Admitting my steep learning curve here...what does it mean? what do I do?

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/irmstrat/public_html/includes/common.inc(1857) : eval()'d code on line 1

Thx!
JohnOB

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heine commented

Does your page contain php code? If not disable 'Allow embedded PHP code in front page for authenticated users'.

This may help.
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trantt commented

The navigation menu is still missing on my default index.php page. How can I turn it on?

When typed in http://localhost:8080/drupal, I received the below page:

"
Welcome to your new Drupal-powered website. This message will guide you through your first steps with Drupal, and will disappear once you have posted your first piece of content.

The first thing you will need to do is create the first account. This account will have full administration rights and will allow you to configure your website. Once logged in, you can visit the administration section and set up your site's configuration.

Drupal comes with various modules, each of which contains a specific piece of functionality. You should visit the module list and enable those modules which suit your website's needs.

Themes handle the presentation of your website. You can use one of the existing themes, modify them or create your own from scratch.

We suggest you look around the administration section and explore the various options Drupal offers you. For more information, you can refer to the Drupal handbooks online."

There are also an edit secondary/primary link on the top right corner...

Also, How do I have both left and right navigation menu turn on?

Thanks

trantt

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heine commented

Could you please elaborate on this and point 3 of your first post?

e.g.
Do you see links in the welcome text?
Can you follow these links?
What php/mysql version are you using?

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trantt commented

Heine,

First of all, thank you very much for your help. I'm really appriciated.

All the links in the welcome page were there but I thought drupal has much more features than that. Is there an admin page that listed out all drupal feature links?

2ndly, if I need to build a test page where there are a left navigation menu (about us, mission, contact us, etc...) and a right navigation (new links for example), how can I go about it?

This is my first cms system that I'm looking at (beside the basic html, I don't know much about css or cms system) and I'm lost....

Thanks
trantt

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heine commented

Hi,

When you're logged in as the first user you should be able to see a navigation menu. The fact that you don't leads me to wonder if you may have some issues with your installation. Can you perhaps post a screenshot? To bad you're on localhost!

The initial installation has very little modules and blocks (the things in the sidebar) enabled. Any new drupal site needs to be configured according to the needs you have. See the handbook for Configuration. I recommend you start with the Introduction.
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trantt commented

Heine,

As I mentioned above, when am receiving the welcome page when running http://localhost:8080/drupal/index.php link. Under this page, I got the following link:

Drupal, create the First account, administration section, set up your site's configuration, module list, Themes, Drupal handbooks online, edit primary links, and secondary links. Other than that, I am not seeing any navigation menu.

Question is, do you think I'm running the wrong index.php, 2ndly, how do I know drupal was loaded correctly on my machine (I was successfully created the first admin account). 3rd, how do I attach a screen shot to this post? 4th, I got to the module page and most of the modules were checked.

Thanks
trantt

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heine commented

There's only one index.php, but you shouldn't need to specify one, at least not when the webserver is setup properly.

As to attaching screenshots; that's not possible here. Send one to my email address (info at ustilago dot org). Better yet; also attach the page index.php is producing.

Heine

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heine commented

This appears to be a MySQL 5 strict mode problem.
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