One small step for man.............
Even though my chosen profession begins with a p, I am not a programmer and that will soon become very evident. I am in the process of learning Drupal in order to bring the following site out of the stone age: www.a4skyhawk.org The site has thousands of photos each with their own HTML page and an example of an individual HTML page can be found by clicking on either of the 2 photos at the top of the home page.
I've managed to develop a basic working knowledge of Drupal through a lot of help from this site and just successfully uploaded my local MAMP site to a live practice site in about 10 minutes. You guys made a very daunting task quite simple. Thanks!
The uploaded site (www.a4skyhawk.org/drupal/) is a very barren and basic attempt to integrate what I've learned so far, but here are my more pressing questions:
1. Is there a way to import the photos AND the associated text from the HTML files into Drupal? I've successfully used Image Import to bring any number of photos into my local MAMP site, but I was wondering whether I could eliminate the additional task of cutting and pasting the text included with each photo?
2. Is there a way to use CCS code in a theme that will allow me to include buttons similar to those created on this site in lieu of the drop down link buttons that remind me of a cow's udder: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/item/vista_aero_buttons_menu/
In each instance where I tried to use them horizontally (above) or vertically (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/item/vista_aero_buttons_menu/) as on my test site, there is a problem and I am hoping somebody has had some experience with CCS.
3. Still not quite sure about views and taxonomy. More succinctly, not sure how to incorporate them into the site once I have all the photos uploaded and the issues associated with question number 1 solved. Or, is that the missing link to solving question 1? I've read the online help, advanced help and "Drupal Multimedia" and "Using Drupal", but the light has still not come on? Any recommendations?
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in the case of menus, investigate nice_menus.module
views creates lists of content. (example: I want a list of images that were uploaded today.)
taxonomy helps organize content (ie: images that have been associated (tagged) with a term, will shows in lists of content called by those terms.
Wohooo!
Nice Menus: That's the ticket. Now to the grindstone. Thanks!
import HTML module
I haven't had a need to use this module but you can give this a try http://drupal.org/project/import_html to import your HTML pages into Drupal.
2) Yes, it is possible to include those buttons using CSS but you need someone who knows theming or at least understands how the theme works in Drupal
3) Views and Taxonomy are both really powerful modules and can be used for many things. It all depends on what your requirements are.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks also.
If this works it will save quite a few hours of work. Thanks for the link!