I am about to start developing a Drupal site. It's been built statically, so all HTML&CSS is pre-existing.
I've got it set up locally and I have a basic structure set up (header, footer, basic CSS) but now I'm struggling with understand the structure of the site. Having just got my head round Wordpress, I'm finding Drupal very unintuitive.
First off, I've identified a need for 11 widgets. E.g "portfolio tall" and "portfolio wide" to display portfolio images (one for a vertical lister and one for horizontal) etc
I've then got 6 different templates or layouts identified. Homepage, two col, one col, inner page with lots of widget areas, portfolio entry page and an inner page with only a few widget areas (I've drawn out every page and worked out each type that needs to be available to get these numbers.)
From my understanding (Drupal documentation seems to go way over my head) you don't have it the same way as Wordpress, where your two col layout can have different widgets in it. Can anyone tell me if this is right?
For example, I need a two col layout with a portfolio widget down the side. I then need a two col layout with an advert down the side. Does this have to be two different pages? Or can I just make one "two col" template and add widgets to it depending on what page it is? Argh, so confusing!