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By jlemm on
Just started with drupal, and already I am wondering if it's not overkill for what I need at this point.
My site is a bunch of static pages - right now all I need is to display them as such, but manage some of the content using drupal user authentication/roles, etc.
Basically I want the site:
1.not to be impacted by the Drupal theme
2.not to display anything Drupal related (logins, tabs)
3.A login link to take the user to a page where they can login and do some content management
Any tips on how to acheive this?
thanks
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Seems like overkill to me
Seems like overkill to me though you could possible do it though I question the first point "not to be impacted by the Drupal theme". If you mean you want a custom drupal theme that is possible, if you mean you do not want drupal to theme it at all that is possible but it then becomes unclear why you would even want to use drupal.
Points 2 and 3 are matters of theming and can be done in a straightforward way.
If your site has more than
If your site has more than 20 pages, and you have to constantly update them, then it won't be overkill. However, you'll find it is somewhat difficult to "turn off" a lot of the drupal features. Don't forget also, that Drupal automatically generates a bunch of HTML that you will have to deal with regardless.
Example
I am using drupal for complex site like www.francaisalondres.com with forum, multiple content types, book module, soon the API module. Contact form, registration with many profiles details and soon newsletter.
I am also using drupal for a very static site www.ifocus-ltd.com it is basically 4-5 pages very static + a contact form page.
the login box is removed completly as well as the user menu. I access them for admin purpose by typing the url to the admin page or user login. I am not a developper although I have been using drupal for 2+ years now and I developped the static site in 3 hours on the Eurostar ! True !
The good thing is that the static site is ready for growth if needed. Also I can use google sitemap, analytics module and drupal statistics module very quickly.
So my take is that even for static pages Drupal can do the trick!
I would agree
I agree with vincent that Drupal works fine for static pages, my earlier comment was trigger by the original posters point that made it sound like they do not want to use a Drupal theme.
yes
Thanks everybody for your replies.
vincent, I think what you do with your static site is what I'm aiming for: a Drupal managed site of about 20 pages and not growing much; a couple of pages (like a calendar) where certain users can modifiy content; and potential for easily adding a blog or forum if needed.
My difficulty is with understading what I have to do to have the site show with its own format instead of being wrapped in the Drupal default theme. Do I have to create another theme with the look of my site?
Here's what I have now: http://www.broadbandmedia.org/?q=node/1
I only want the stuff under 'a page' to show, not the login bar on the left or the blue bar with Drupal logo at the top. A link to a login page would allow a user to login and manage certain content according to their permissions.
You will want another theme
Regarding
My difficulty is with understading what I have to do to have the site show with its own format instead of being wrapped in the Drupal default theme. Do I have to create another theme with the look of my site?
Yes, you will want another theme that reflects the look you want. The default theme is not a bad starting point if it is a all close to what you want or maybe there is another existing theme that is closer. In either case I would suggest you pick a theme and copy the whole directory to a new name (the name you want your theme to have). If you are using a phptemplate theme (something I would recommend) and there is an existing template.php file you will need to edit the copy changing any instances of the orginal theme name to your new one.
So regarding
I only want the stuff under 'a page' to show, not the login bar on the left or the blue bar with Drupal logo at the top.
The login bar is in a block, if you visit administer -> blocks you can disable the block
You can disable the logo by visiting administer -> themes and configure your theme (where you can disable the logo)
The blue bar is part of the theme and you would need to edit your copy to remove it.
If you are wondering why not just edit the default theme the answer is should you do a drupal update the default theme may be over written and your changes would be lost.
another thread as well
This type of site was discussed in another thread that you may want to look through as well.
http://drupal.org/node/31896
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