I’m working for a company called simPC. simPc is a manufacturer of a pc specially made for elderly people (55+). Al our services are mostly build on a webportal (personal settings, subscription settings, forum, faq, gallery, banking). At this time we use a custom made cms system but it is not ideal. It is hard to make changes because everything needs to be hard coded.
Here’s my question. We want to use drupal as our cms, but we want to keep own present structure for the front-end. Is it possible to use drupal only as a backend and not as a front-end (user interface)?
Why the above question!?! Our front-end consists of five main pages (start*1, settings*2, subscription*3, forum*4, help*5). Every page has a different layout, some pages have 2 blocks with only modules and other pages have modules and info blocks.
At this moment I’m already working to weeks on converting the theme to drupal, but I don’t know where to start and if it is even possible to convert it to a drupal theme. The menu at the top is already converted but for the other content I’m clueless.
I already looked in tons of tutorials / forums but al the themes that are created are all straight forward with a header, sidebar(s), content and footer. I hoop someone can help me because I’m literally eating my self up.
Here you can download a zip with pictures of these five main pages. So you know how our current layout with modules looks like. The layout and modules are in Dutch but I’ve added some notes to define the current blocks.