By aidanodr on

Hi Guys,

I recently stumbled upon Drupal as aCMS, I have to say I really like it so far. What I want to do is to integrate an existing static site into Drupal or visa versa. While the documentation is comprehensive in volume, I find it can lack in actual tutorial depth in some parts. The location of a tutorial on a step by step approach [ inc pitfalls ] on how to do this type of integration would be appreciated. Here is the site in question:

http://www.tidalsound.com/azzurro

A number of people in this outfit wish to have the ability to add content at will, so I thought Drupal is the ideal solution. I made a start using an existing template:

http://www.tidalsound.com/az

I am just wondering about things like Horizontal Menus, are these possible? I figured out how to change the logo - took a while though, and I may not have done this right. A dummies guide to template construction and all that.

Also I do a number of websites for companys, but they are static. This whole CMS thing intrigues me and now that I have found Drupal I would like to start using it in this area too.

I look forward to ye're replies,
Cheers
Aidan

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.6.x

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ntozier’s picture

ntozier commented

Aidan,

You might want to try the Import_HTML module.

http://drupal.org/node/46008

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ntoz

aidanodr’s picture

aidanodr commented

Thanks ntoxier,

Will look at that. But I suppose I should also say I would like to know the best practice and tools needed to say take a site like above and rebuild it from scratch in Drupal. Im not afraid of the work OR trying to shorten same, just want to get my head around how Drupal would do this using Drupalese :)

What is the Basic menu structure in the "Html" site equivilent to in Drupal - is it a BOOK, a whole load of Pages, a story etc. Stuff like that

Cheers
Aidan

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dgrant commented

Check out this for themeing aspects:
http://support.bryght.com/articles/converting-css-html-design-phptemplat...

As for structuring the content, I'm still learning that myself. Basically I am using "stories" for timely content (content I want to see chronologically on the front page for example) and "pages" for static content (like "About Us" or "Contact Us" pags). And I'm using acidfree for galleries and a flexinode type for events.