Converting to Drupal

I am a newcomer to Drupal, but not to websites and other CMS. I am faced with converting an existing site to Drupal. What is wanted is a front page that gives a content of static information introducing the site, with a set of latest blog posts in the column at the side. What I have at the moment is the static content at the side and the blog posts as the main content. This is all for those who have not logged in.
Can anyone give me advice on this please?

Hi,
I am a newbee using Drupal, and i'm trying to get some informations about How to migrate several Jahia website into Drupal.
I can't find any good information about that. I just got some explanations such as migrate Joomla -> Drupal or Wordpress -> Drupal...
The only solution I just kept from now is using Drupal Migrate Module

Could you please help me to find out some:
- Best practices
- Scripts (on linux)
- Roadmap

Any advices and/or help are welcome !

Thanks in advance,

OK, I'm fairly new to Drupal, but having played around with an installation in a subdirectory of my main domain, I'm pretty sure I want to rebuild my entire site with Drupal, mostly so I can better expand it over time.

However, I'm confused about how best to do this while keeping my old site online in the meantime (and keeping it around and accessible in the background afterward). Say my main domain is domain.com -- my first thought was that I would build the site in domain.com/sub and then, when I'm ready, remap the domain name to domain.com/sub, so people would arrive there (and at my Drupal site) when they surfed to www.domain.com

Then I read that this could gum things up, because Drupal hard-codes at least some of its paths. So I started looking into multisite installations, using it to work on a dev version (either at localhost or in a subdirectory of domain.com), vs. building it wherever and using the Backup and migrate module... And my head is spinning.

Some other parameters: My host is pair.com, which has a software installation manager that makes core updates pretty easy, so ideally I'd like to be able to use that; but it makes it difficult to make sure I have the same installation of Drupal on localhost.

Hey Drupalistas, I'm managing a project to move this website to Drupal: www.ippc.int more functionality will be added there on. Counting on support and ideas from you guys. Thanks Pierre.

I have a website Technology Navigator I launched this website 3 years ago on blogger. Apter few month i moved my website on Wordpress but now i want to move on Drupal. But before converting the whole three month success i just want to ask the Drupal experts, will my internal page ranks remain same or not? Will i loose my visitors? Will my internal Google page rank decrease or it will be as before.

Hi fellow webmasters, I already searched but no luck so far so I decided to open a thread.

Issue #1: can't stop D7 from resampling images (disabling image styles). I work with optimized images that I only need to upload and display... but Drupal keeps creating resampled files and directories. Already overrided the image styles removing the resampling function but no luck. Also deleted the image styles from the DB, no luck. Also modified the field properties setting it to use the original image and avoid it from using thumbnails, etc. No luck!

Each page (node) must have a preview image (for listings), that's the only image field I'm using but those are the problems I'm experiencing. I tried with just "file upload" but can't figure out the way to include the image for display on teasers.

Issue#2: Importing old images into Drupal7 (for teaser). I built my own routines to export my data, so I already imported it into the database and it works fine: nodes, taxonomy, url aliases, etc. I recreated the data structure of the thumbnails, image previews... but no luck. The data is there, I even got it to appear on the node edition (linked to the images, just fine) but the teaser won't work.