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By lorsheski on
Hello. I'm new to Drupal and was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. I would like to convert my layout into Drupal. From what I've been reading it appears that I need to take my layout and create a theme for it, but I'm not sure where to start.
The plan is to use Drupal for the alternative weekly where I work. I spoke with their graphic artist on how they want their web site to look and have now created the layout in css and html (the weekender). The layout was designed in GoLive. It has the basic elements: a header (logo, image navigation and promo spot), a content section (the white block which will contain more modules as I move forward), a right side bar (for ads) and a footer (link navigation, copyright and address). I've installed Drupal 5.0 (test site - it hasn't been modified yet) and have created a mytheme folder which contains my images, js and stylesheets.
I'll be diving into the Theme developer's guide today, but I was wondering if there is a way to import what I've done without create new templates or modifying a current template? Are there any tips anyone could share? Or even just direct me to links that I could read? Anything at all would be welcomed!
Thanks in advance,
Lee Ann
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Hi
By the looks of it your site is ideal for drupal but you will have to do some modification yourself to get it just right. Luckily in your case a lot of that modification needn't necessarily be getting down into any coding.
A lot of the themes are fairly configurable in themselves allowing you add things like images for the page header and the colour scheme - the new Garland theme for instance lets you change all the colours. So have a look through the themes and find one which suits best what you have in mind.
You can then do a lot more customisation in the admin section of your site to arrange the blocks on the right hand side and define the menus at the top of the page.
Once you've done all you can you can edit the theme files and CSS to get it exactly how you like. I think some themes are easier to understand than others but I can't remember off hand which ones they are but in the past when I've themed sites myself I remember it being surprisingly easy to do so good luck !