Converting to Drupal

Granted, my old forum is relatively small with only 25 active members and about 100 topics. However, I'd rather make a smooth transition to the new software, more than anything with usernames. How can I migrate an existing PunBB forum to Drupal?

I am new to Drupal so please bear with me. I am working on creating a site that I would have to hand over to someone but they do not have Drupal installed and want site in HTM/CSS only. Is there any way to convert drupal site to HTML/CSS extracting out the info from directories ? I do not need dynamic database drive information, just the layout/structure ? can that be done, is there any documentation ?

Hi Community,

I am about to convert from a very unkown blogging engine to drupal. Because I don't want to mix up something by hacking the database I want to transfer the blogs posts by using xml-rpc.

That should be done in PHP5 and I want to transfer post-content, post-cats as taxonomy, post-date, post-title.

Any hint - piece of code - how I can start over?

Thanks in advance,
proxiss

I've got another post concerning whether or not Drupal is really suited to my application. As I delve further into what all Drupal is capable of I'm beginning to feel more confident that I could make it work (even if it has to be forced and/or hacked).

However, considering that I already have a lot of my business logic implemented and would like to get people to start using/testing soon, would it be possible/wise to go ahead and install drupal and use it as the basis for my site. Meaning it would control users, navigation/layout and basic privileges. But instead of my applications "data" and presentation being controlled by drupal in the "normal drupal" way it would kind of do its own thing and just make use of drupals user information and keep my applications data/logic parallel to Drupal. Then as I am able to integrate the different pieces of functionality back into drupal I can do it piece by piece.

I realize that is a very awkward and ambiguous question. But I'm still not sure how to make my data "fit" inside of how drupal operates. I'm sure part of it is just lack of understanding how to make drupal fit my needs. So, my question is really can I start working with drupal and as I learn new tricks/techniques move more pieces inside of drupal without having to know it all from the beginning?

Ok. Here's the rub. I have a new install of Drupal and I'd like to create "Categories" so-to-speak within a page. I'm probably not saying it right. If you goto "Login" on this site, you'll notice that there are 3 tabs "Create / Login / Forgot Password" I want something like that. However, I want it dynamic, so that I can say, create 3 pages within one page. This way, I can sell a shoe for example, the page will have the title "Shoe Name" then I could have 3 tabs, Overview, Details, and Photos.

I am *very* early in the development stages of an application that will pull information from various sources (mainly social networks like facebook, opensocial sites, myspace, etc) and allow users to associate all of their "friends" from those sites into a single "contact" that has up-to-date information about them.