Adding essays

By promete on 30 Sep 2005 at 22:56 UTC

Now i am adding my essays about cinema, scienc etc to my database. They are in html files now. What is the most reasonable way to this? Should i add these essays to my database with a database tool or drupal index page is enough for this.?
I added 3 essays as story by "creating content". And they are now on the front page. But the last two essays appeares only as headline. There is no trimmed content. This is a problem.
But in fact i want to know something else. When i create content i paste the html source into body part.After these operation are these essays installed to database? or does something else happen?

Comments

re: adding essays

kvarnelis commented 1 October 2005 at 00:11

i've done this by doing as you did. but, you'll be better off if you get rid of any possibly offending html. i get rid of any css, tables, or anything else, leaving very little.

i also replace <b> with <strong> to be more compliant with modern standards.

if microsoft word created your documents it will take a while to clean them up, but it can be done. you might want to use a text editor to do search and replace to eliminate superfluous tags.

Database

promete commented 1 October 2005 at 00:20

I didnt understand what you mean.? Could you please explain a bit? Hoe did you do ? My pages are plain html pages. I just want to add them to my archive. And when new ones come; i will display them on first page but i wont do anything else i will just add new essays to database? But i dont know how to do?

uh-oh, i forgot to close the

kvarnelis commented 1 October 2005 at 04:54

whoops. i forgot to enclose the

<b></b> and <strong></strong> tags in code tags

darn, this forum module needs a lot of work, doesn't it?

as for your question, i'm not really sure what your problem is, there isn't enough information for me to go on. it is, however easy enough to post previously formatted html pages. you've already figured that out with one, right? you should try seeing where the other page fails and why. try posting some of the code, not all. identify the problem carefully. as far as posting on the front page, that's easy enough. not much more i can really do except walk you through the documentation, but that's what it's there for. more importantly, trial and error is the best way to learn drupal.