Converting to Drupal

Hi

I am about to undertake the replacement of a simple Joomla site with a Drupal site which for the most part consists of the same bunch of static pages. I am seeking the best implementation strategy which doesn't involve blowing the Joomla site away before the new site is proven to work successfully. Although the page URLs will definitely change ( the current pages in Joomla do not have clean URLs ), how can I best maintain the Google ranking that the existing pages have for the new Drupal pages ?

I have a project for work where we needed to take an existing site built with Ruby on Rails using a MySQL database and convert it to use Drupal as the framework. It is for a regional debate league, and it has events, schools, news (general, middle school, and high school), galleries, contact forms, a google map showing all schools, and several static pages. It should be straight forward, except there are several hundred events, three times as many photo galleries, and 33,000+(!) images weighing in at 16 GB.

In the existing database, galleries were linked to images using a 1 to many relationship and foreign keys in the images database. The images database had 4 different sizes for each image, and everything but the original image was linked to the id of the main image through a parent id. Galleries were associated with events on a 1:1 basis, though about 2/3rds of the galleries were not associated with any event. News was either general, middle, or high school. Schools and events both had location information associated with them. I set up my content types to match the 'content types' on the old system using CCK fields and location where applicable.

I reviewed several options for the photo galleries with the client, and they liked the gallery included with the images module the best, as it supported mass import from FTP and was straight forward to use and set up.

Hi - being new to Drupal and programming I hope some residing genius is able to help me.

I want to extract the content from various post written in one of my sites, to another database -both are MYsql 5 and PHP. But I can't suss which tables in the PHPmyadmin interface hold the content-data, mainly "story" and "books".

Can anyone tell me how to do this?

Thanks a million, u r soooooo smart........:- )

regards from fabShadow [ i LUV drupal ]

hi All

I am creating a static web site and in that i m having only content area no right or left panel.
now thing is i m using page for static content display.but on few pages i m having application forms.
how can i use web forms to create page with dynamic form.

can we call node in page(which is itself a node).

Please Suggest..

Hey,
I need your help in an urgent matter.
I get this warning when I add update PHP code. It says:
"
• warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/drupal/includes/common.inc(1645) : eval()'d code on line 349.
• warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/drupal/includes/common.inc(1645) : eval()'d code on line 361
"

I can't figure out the basic operational workflow of Drupal, and I've been reading for more than an hour. I have a site with a bunch of pieces of content on the main page.

ie

-============-
- Menu -
-Name of product-
- Description -
- Pictures -
- -
- -
- Newsposts -
- Media stuff -
- -
- -
- =========== -