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I am evaluating Drupal for a potential website instead of using a COTS CMS.

Here is what I mean by a template page: A page with pre-defined design and a user simply enters content (text or images for placeholders in a template). For example, a template page may have an image in the right corner and text occupying remaining space of a page; another template page may have mostly text and two images in the bottom. To create a page based on a template, an end-user chooses that template, sees a form, enters needed text in a text area box, upload images, and save it (still unpublished). This is what we are able to do with our current COTS CMS.

Can we do the same thing with Drupal? If yes, can anybody give me some pointers for understanding and test?

All the best!

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yelvington commented

That's how it works.

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nevets commented

In Drupal what you call a template would be a content type, you can add additional content types and using the Content Construction Kit (CCK) add additional fields. Output is controlled through templates, by default the content is themed through node.tpl.php, the whole page through page.tpl.php

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jaypan
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To add to nevets comment, Drupal works under a system whereby data processing and generation is kept separate from the display of said data (whether that be pure HTML, or a form, or javscript etc). So the short answer, as both previous posters said, is yes. As for how to do that - way more than can be answered in one thread! This whole site is dedicated to that idea really.

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