By treet11 on

Hello,

To start I must say that I'm new to Drupal so I don't know much about it.

I'm making a centered website with three big menu buttons in the center, and above one big header image. When you click on one of the menu items, content will drop down. I need about 6 content places.

In order to make this kind of website, I think that I need to edit the base code of Drupal, since I don't see anything in Drupal for that type of website.

I looked in the page.tpl.php, and replaced (parts) of the code with my website code. (it was already made before, I just need to integrate it into Drupal) But ofcourse, this didn't work since I have only one $content php variable for all the content. The other problem is that I also had to edit style.css, but than the Administration panel became almost not use able.

So I thought that I could make PHP check the URL on what page it was, and when it was at some admin page, it would bring back the old Garland style, and not my custom one. Ofcourse I had to know where did Drupal initialize the $styles variable.

The other problem is that i have six content spaces, so I will need six variables. I also need to know where the $content variable is initialized.

Regards,

Treet11

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vm commented

investigate the views.module and panels.module

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treet11 commented

Thanks for the response,

I downloaded the Views module, but is it like a new version of Drupal made by someone else who made it easier for my kind of website making to use Drupal?

Or do I need to add this Views folder into my Modules folder in my existing Drupal-6.15 folder?

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vm commented

contrib modules go into sites/all/modules folder
contrib themes go into sites/all/themes

documentation for installing modules is found in the modules README.txt and INSTALL.txt files. There is also a plethora of already exiting documentation that you should read up on.

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treet11 commented

Thank you, I just wanted to edit my post :P

But still thanks