Converting to Drupal

Hello everyone, ok here it goes. I have been designing websites for a around 10 years now. And has been actively hiring out my drupal web developments and still will. How i do things now is design the html websites with css included and give them to my Drupal guy (developer) He then takes the html and converts it to a Drupal theme. I'd like to cut down on costs and have someone show me step by step html to drupal conversion and possably start learning the core of Drupal. My last 4 Drupal website have been a over-welling success.

Hello all,

Sorry if this has already been answered, but I just can't find the answer anywhere...

I'd like to bring over my companies current static .html site, and I know it's possible from reading lots of posts here. But my question is... is it possible to retain the exact file names that we currently have? So www.mycompany.com/products.html will still be that exact URL when on Drupal. We're placed very well in search engines, and we don't want to lose our ranking.

Finally taking the leap from nuke to Drupal, need a Download section in my site that does similar thing as nuke's "Downloads" module

I don't have a lot of files, but would be nice to have some management and approval process for suggesting and uploading new files in additional to rating / downloading / commenting files of different types. The files are basic programs usually in Rar and Zip format. The ability to see the content would be great, but not necessary.

Hi all,

I plan to start using Drupal for an enterprise application and I would like to know if DB transactions are supported in 6.x and whether they will be supported in 7.x?

I saw some mention of this via google, but I am not sure of the status quo.

Are there any implications to be aware of when using transactions in Drupal? For example, would table level locking available in certain db vendors adversely impact performance vs row level locking?

Thanks,

Hi All, I am looking to move my work site to being a drupal based one. Basically we maintain a list of suppliers and lines that they work on.

What modules would I need to have a databaseesque structure eg

Product line eg each product has a designer, manufacturer, supplier, color and material.