Converting to Drupal

Hey all,

Since a few weeks I've installed Drupal and I'm trying to make a website with a totally custom lay-out. Until now this went well, ignoring the fact that Drupal builds in thousands of useless divs. I figered my way out, but now I'm totally stuck. I have used CMS made simple before, but I heard with Drupal the site could also be built from core. My question is, where is that option? How do I prevent nested divs like this:

Hello, I was thinking of getting someone to build me a website in Drupal and I was wondering if there is anywhere I can view some examples of how the admin might look in Drupal?

I have come accross Drupal some years ago, and now I am back with basically the same difficulty (and the same question).

It appears from to me that Drupal is very good but more oriented towards sites having a blog, articles... but not suited for managing more complicated databases over the internet.

Hi, I have a column in my database called "field_concert_pubished_value" which is storing the values of the concert publishing (it is a cck field)

I have old records from previous system and there is stored this value as classical timestamp.

I know how to INSERT INTO ... however the format of the date time cck field is unusual. I mean e.g. 2011-05-10T06:58:00 . The letter T between the date and time, so I can not use FROM_UNIXTIME function to convert from my old records to this yyyy-mm-ddThh:ii:ss.

Hi there

I have recently taken on a client who has 4 websites that I want to bring over to Drupal. The one issue that is stopping me from cracking on is the 'Testimonials' page on every site is referenced from one database. They update the testimonials in an admin page, and it's reflected in all the sites straight away. They basically all reference the same database. I've not found a solution to doing this in Drupal. I am quite a recent convert to Drupal, so please could I ask you to go careful with any answer.

Thank you and regards,
Michael

Firstly, hello.

I installed drupal and it is running. I did the upgrade and somehow the site was protected (no deleted files) and manually updated.

I'd like to know if I will need to do this again, eg upload files or is there a web interface ie "browse" to a .zip file instead.

Administrative menus were disabled and I had to use update.php to get back and now half the text is times roman and half arial.

Is this to be expected or was the fault at your end?

Cheers