Converting to Drupal

Hello,

I want to learn Drupal 5.1. Also I installed Drupal in my system( i.e localhost). But I don't know, How to start?... So any one tell me, how should i started to learn Drupal 5.1?..

Thanks,
Vinoth

Hey there,

I had recently decided to move my static site to Drupal for many reasons, primary one being interactivity and community features. Some background - the website has about 300 pages with 4 or broad categories. Everything is purely static (built on dreamwaver). My site ranks well with the search engines and I have done a bit of reasearch on Drupal and SEO which doesn't seem a problem after I migrate.

I have spent more than a month learning the 'basics'; it has been slow and overwhelming, but I plan to go ahead.

Ok, here's what I have done so far:

I have used the import_html module to import all of my static pages and preserve the old URLs. As a second step, I want to create taxonomies / categories to match that of the old site.

Here's what I would like to do:

Let me take an example:

This is the existing setup-

There are 4 broad categories to the website - car types, car tips, car videos, car blogs and car forums.

Car Types are the biggest of the lot with majority of content falling in this category. Under this category, I have content categorized into the types of cars such as Honda, Toyota, Ford, GM etc. These have again another level of categorization.

Now I want to create taxonomy terms similar to the setup above; I don't see a problem doing that.

I have a MS Frontpage website that I am creating to a drupal website. The test drupal site is on my laptop.

Using create a page on drupal, I copied the html of the existing static webpage and dropped this into the body field. However, the result is not very good. Text is scrambled and formatting are all over the place.

I then tried just copying text from webpage rendered in my browser. That created a cleaner result, but I lost my images and other formatting features like bullets. BTW I have set the input format to full html.

Hi, All,

Is there any guides for converting mambo6.2 to drupal. thank

fuzi

I set up a forum a couple of years ago with Simple Machines, but having spent some time with Drupal, I prefer the slimmed down feature set and easier theming. Is there any way to convert the forum over to Drupal, with users, posts and responses?

Dear Drupal Community,

I've been thinking for a long time about switching some of my websites to drupal, but I don't want to spend a fortune to do it. So I will allow the readers of this forum to give me their observation about how this can be accomplished. First of all the websites are located at Black Conscious News.com http://www.bconnews.com and Black Conscious Network.com http://www.blackconnet.com

Black Conscious News.com is a content based website, while Black Conscious Network.com is an Online Community.

Black Conscious News.com
The website operates underneath a CMS (now defunct) and uses SSI language to syndicate content. It is one of the few sites you can copy syndicated code and embed it into your website. There is a lot of flexibility in how you can use this code. For instance, you can have headlines with or without pictures. You can make headlines bold, italic or regular. And the amount of formating that is used is endless.

Another interesting thing about this website is that anyone can register to become a writer or content distributor. All that is done is that a person register's and log into their account.