Converting to Drupal

Hi
People do you any one or any material that explains well how to convert css/xhtml to drupal. the material i have come across sucks

I have setup a new Drupal site at:

http://www.webel.com.au/

I have moved an old JSP site down to:

http://www.webel.com.au/oldjsp/ (it is now essentially down)

The new Drupal/PHP site - which exploits books heavily - has quite different structure, although many of the
Drupal aliases reflect to some degree the JSP folder structure, and so are suitable targets for catch-all redirects.

I am already gettings lots of Page Not Founds (mostly due to indexing robots I assume), both for images and for complex URLs such as:

http://www.webel.com.au/uml/parsing/index.jsp?page=wikipedia#particle

All up there are perhaps a few hundred such cases; some have clear targets on the new Drupal site, some don't. In most cases it would be sufficient to map from the JSP folder to an equivalent book branch in Drupal.

http://www.webel.com.au/uml/parsing_analysis (drupal alias)
http://www.webel.com.au/node/120 (same thing as drupal node url)

So a possible solution is to map - using wildcards - EVERY '*.jsp'
(and not all such pages are called 'index.jsp', and some have queries) from:

http://www.webel.com.au/uml/parsing/*/../*/*.jsp\??*=*
(my pretend wildcard regexp for all JSP under /uml/parsing/ physical folder)

http://www.webel.com.au/uml/parsing_analysis (Drupal PHP node)

If only I new how to do that easily !

We run a listings/classifieds site (.net) and are thinking about incorporating a cms in order to beef out the site a bit by adding regular dynamic content to certain pages. Basicallly we will be adding articles related to the various sections we have in the site (jobs, property etc)
Is it possible to incorporate Drupa to just certain pages within the site so that the current structure/design can remain as it is.

Thanks in advance

hi
i need a little bit of advise plz on multi site.
So far i only instal drupal on a 1 site per instal system but now we trying to convert all our sites total of 12 sites to one place for easy update ,share data from one to others and performance wise.

so my question is can it be done easily with drupal or should we look elsewhere ? or should we just keep the sites to separate host?

any tips,help,tutorials,guides pointers will be very appreciated .
thx in advance

Hello.
At the moment Ive managed to migrate one of my existing forums based on SMF 1.x to Drupal 6 (converting database to PHPBB3 and then to Drupal), I will also migrate with the secound, when i will finish with the first, but now i have problem. All users in database lost their passwords when i was exporting database to PHPBB3. Is there any way, to automaticly send emails to all of them with some link to easly generate new password ?

I'm new to drupal and php etc. I am redesigning an existing website (www.example.com) in drupal. The website is to stay at it's current location and with it's existing hosting provider until I have the redesign complete. I have a couple hundred pages in the form www.example.com/folder/page.aspx that will receive a new home in drupal and will need to be redirected. I have been trying to get 301 redirects to work -- I've read a number of different articles here -- and I must admit that I'm pretty confused and nothing I have tried has worked. I'm hoping someone might be able to walk me through this.

Here's where I'm at:

I recently signed up for a hosting service that will support drupal and multiple domains. I installed drupal under the master domain into the www directory.

The website that I'm redesigning will be added to this account as an add-on.

So to test that I'll be able to get it to work:

1. I added on a domain to this account: addon1.com.
2. I setup a database for this domain
3. Added it to the sites folder in drupal (www/sites/addon1.com)
4. created a symlink using php ( symlink("/home/username/public_html/", "/home/username/public_html/addon1"); ,
5. installed drupal.

Everything is working great and it looks like I'll have no problem adding on the site I'm redesigning and configuring it properly.