By mattgaunt on

Hey everyone,

First thing is first I'm fairly new to HTML and CSS only been doing it for about a year learning about standards and CSS etc, so I know my way around but still got alot to learn - same goes for PHP.

Anyway I wanted to start to use Drupal to make content management a bit easier to update my website but also to use in much bigger tasks which I'll need in the future.

No I've redesigned the front end of my site over the last couple of days http://www.gauntface.co.uk/. None of the links work because didn't see the point when I plan on adding content in Drupal.

But for instance I want to make a gallery using the Flickr API and making some php pages which will go through all my photo sets and images etc automatically creating the pages etc.

But how would I go about adding something like this into Drupal because I have Story or Page and blocks etc and basically I'm finding it all a bit confusing lol.

Would I just make a Page (i.e. static) but create php code in the content to do all of the Flickr api and layout for it?

Sorry if this seems like a bit of a rant etc but just in need of some help.

Many thanks,
Matt

Comments

yelvington’s picture

yelvington commented

If you want to pull your Flickr content into your Drupal site, you should use one of the existing modules:

http://drupal.org/project/modules?text=flickr

And turning your site design into a Drupal theme isn't particularly difficult; follow the documentation here and/or buy a book.

vpiplani’s picture

vpiplani commented

Hi

You have got a good layout. You can go to following links to get some help on theming. Hopefully they will help you in making the theme for your website.

http://drupal.org/theme-guide
http://www.nerdliness.com/article/2007/09/10/drupal-theming

Regards
Viresh

mattgaunt’s picture

mattgaunt commented

Cheers for the replies.

I was recommended a book Pro Drupal Development which I've picked up and it has some stuff in there on theming going through a guide of changing HTML to a Drupal theme, so I'm going to go through that for my first theme but that nerdliness.com link looks good.

If everything goes well I might make a simple screencast for new people :-)

Cheers for the advice