Converting to Drupal

Hello,

For a club I am the webmaster of a Drupal site. That site is running fine. Now I would like to copy its content to an IIS7 webserver for testing. I do have all the files from the original website and the .sql file with all the MySQL content.

I have done the following:

I am new to Drupal, Switching from Joomla.

I am a little lost. I am making a relatively simple site (Brochureware), I want to remove the login from the front page and add it to a hidden page or link. I turned off the login module, logged out and tried using the links I found on the web to log back in...

up until now i've been using Feeds, but Migrate seems to more powerful, but with that, apparently a steep learning curve. is any here who is not a developer using Migrate successfully? since there is no ui, i would love some tips or help so i could start using this tool.

thanks.

i'm using the Feeds module to import nodes using a csv, and i'd like to populate the Summary field on import. It's not available in the ui, but i think it is supported in the field.inc file, i just don't know how to configure it.

does anyone have experience or could advise me on how i could accomplish this using Feeds or another tool?

thanks.

Hello all! We're migrating our company's websites over to Drupal 7 very soon and I'm very new to this framework. We have an example gallery for our products, which is a list of db items. So what I'm wondering is: do I make (or look for) a module for this or is this something that can be solved with content types?

Ideally, I'd want the admin to be able to edit a list that can be reordered in the backend to control the gallery in the frontend.

Thanks for the help.

Hi There!
I'm migrating a website to Drupal from a site that had really gnarly long urls with lots of vars... I'm wondering if there is any automatic way to deal with this?

Proposed scenario: in the long urls from the old site, there were variables such as "storyid=", when migrating this content to drupal, we've created a cck field for this data... So I'm wondering if there is a way to "catch" old links coming to our domain, get the 'storyid' out of the url, then redirect to the node that has that value in its cck field...