By talper on

hello,
lets say im the one in charge of making a photoshop mockup into a css/html, should the person who did the mockup work differently then the way he would if it was a regular site?
or the main job of making it a drupal is mine and actually you can make any mockup a drupal system?

i mean he gets the specification and design a mockup, is there something special he needs to know like i do when it comes to making it a css/html for drupal?
also, how and where would i write the jquery? for each design i want to use i write the special jquery code?

and last-what is the theme i get from the designer? is it the main site that will be shown every time, while the different modules will be added? so how/and should you design the different modules? i mean if you design for drupal, you have many new options for the main page as you have many moduls.
should the designer design the page with the knowlage i can use the moduls so he should give a design for the contact form or the polls for example? if no, wouldnt they be very basic styled?

thanks.

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tryitonce commented

... I think you should install Drupal 6.x (D7 is too new) somewhere and have a go so you understand the system.
When colleagues respond to your points you need to understand what they are talking about.
So, for designing a site you need to know about theming -
Documentation is here: http://drupal.org/documentation
and for Theming look here: http://drupal.org/theme-guide - googling for it with Drupal in the search will bring up plenty of external tutorials as well.
Themes are here: http://drupal.org/project/themes.
Basically you can create any website design in Drupal if you understand theming. There are some tricks around and you may want to look at the basics of doing it all in css/html yourself or there is the Zen (http://drupal.org/project/zen) system and some others allowing you to do certain things easily "on-screen" like Fusion - (http://drupal.org/project/fusion) or Framework (http://drupal.org/project/framework) and others.
However, it might be better to start with a bit of theming basics to understand what they are doing and how limited they are - as there is no full freedom with a system.
As for mock-up designs - if the designer knew some basics about Drupal it would help. But if not he just makes his/her design and you transfer it into a Drupal theme. When you have worked your way through theming and the options available to do it from scratch or with one of the kits you will then be able to give the designer the framework to use - total freedom or a box of "Theme-Lego". .....