By jugganaut-1 on

I've created a website for my friend's band and she wants to list upcoming shows on the front page, then have another page where people can see past shows. I started messing with the BLOG part, but can't figure out how to place it into the site/html I've already created. Where do I find the code to place it, like the blog part and an admin login links?

Thanks for any help!

John

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sepeck commented

What theme engine are you using and do you have a link to the site?

This is porbably not what you want ...
For login it's /user
for blogs it's /blog

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jugganaut-1 commented

I want it to look like this:

http://www.clairesmall.com/index2.html

on the front page.

Then have all of the posts on another section so that people can go back, like this:
http://www.clairesmall.com/pages/tour.html

I am editing all this in html every time and its getting old.

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sepeck commented

You are going to want the events module for this as indicated below. if you are new to Drupal, there is a slight learning curve, but it is worth it in the end.

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nevets commented

It looks like you may want to use the event module (you may also may want to use the flexnode module to create a node type that is only events).
Then only promote events to the front page (and unpromote them whem they are past), or use a code snippet to show only upcoming events.

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jugganaut-1 commented

how can transplant the content into my own html? I'm really only using drupal for this simple content publishing...

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Steven commented

Drupal's theming is not page oriented, because of the vast complexity in the way pages can interact. This is often a surprise for people who come from a different background, but the advantage is that new functionality will "just work" rather than requiring manual template hacks.

Still, you can have a dedicated front page template by using sections.module to switch themes.

It sounds like you need to check out the theme developer's guide in the handbook.

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benshell commented

Drupal is far more powerful than what you're looking for. If you've got the interest, I highly recommend learning Drupal and using it for the entire site, but something as simple as you're talking about could very easily be done from scratch with PHP/MySQL.

Do you have any PHP or database experience? The first time I ever did anything with server side code and a database on the web was about four years ago when I used ASP with MS Access to do exactly what you're doing... it was for a concerts listing for a friend's band. I made a simple login page, a basic concert editor, and a listing which showed upcoming concerts separate from past concerts. Doing it again, however, I would definitely use Drupal because I could have managed the whole site easier.