By UNarmed on

Hey i am considering using drupal as the CMS on a site im working on. What i want to know is, can i setup drupal on a completely custom site. I have already build the html and css. If drupal works in the way that it is installed and then i have to adapt my design to its templete then it isnt realy the CMS solution i am looking for. Please clear this up as drupal realy looks great and im keen to get started on it but if my design havce to be based on its templete then it wont work for me.

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wr5aw commented

The most powerful feature of Drupal, or any other CMS for that matter, is adaptability and ease of maintenance. You don't adapt your design to a Drupal template. Your design becomes the Drupal template. In a nutshell, all Drupal does is insert content into your HTML at specific locations on the page. Read through some of the theming documents and tutorials. You'll find it's fairly easy to adapt a static html template to Drupal. Have a look at one of my club websites - http://w5pc.org. That started out as a static html site. I just converted the basic design into a Drupal template. Then I setup various content types and modules to handle the content.