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By Anonymous (not verified) on
How to covert static html into drupal 6.0 theme?
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To get the best results and a quality output
i would advice to re-slice your actual website and start integrating the layout into a basic solid theme as Zen, Blueprint or other core theme tweaking the CSS / HTML.
This solution is good if the layout of your website is not anything too complicated or particularly fancy (ie: header, right/left sidebars, content, footer).
If it is, you might want to start the other way around, which needs some more knowledge of the Drupal theming system.
As a brief and in no ways exhaustive introduction:
1. Rename your index.html page to
page.tpl.php.2. Rename your stylesheet to
style.css3. Open an existing core theme and copy at least node.tpl.php, comment.tpl.php, block.tpl.php templates to your new theme folder.
4. Write or copy/adjust your
theme.infofile.5. Open your new page.tpl.php and start substituting the static content with Drupal variables and php calls.
6. Tweak your style.css.
This can take probably more time than starting from a good theme framework from start, and the result might not be as good, so i would recommend to follow the first method. Hope it helps ;)