I'm the project manager for a large website.
I've been hired to take over for a contract that is 3 months overdue.
The programmer chose drupal and has a substantial but not-functional site designed.
The owner wants to use the design, but doesn't like drupal's layout which is more suited for blogs than a commercial venue.
I offered to copy the drupal layout into HTML pages and solve the infamous drupal screen resizing problems.
This also allows us to walk-around drupal on its other limitations such as custom templates not fitting standard modules.
The problems getting drupal to output back IN to the HTML. I've no problem submitting the data correctly, but drupal always "wants" to output a full html page when all I want it to do is give me back the SQL data and some content.
When I use a FORM action I can direct drupal to another page, but this only works haphazardly, and I'd like a more seemless interaction with drupal NOT handling the HTML!
I really need some suggestions on this.
The drupal programmer went on VACATION with the contract still unfilled and now four months overdue. We are paying 250.00 a day in site expenses until I can solve this problem, allowing us to terminate the contract and apply for remunerations.
If it were not for the active and supportive drupal community, this programmer would have burned me forever - causing me to hate drupal. We bought the drupal book and I've been using it, and I'm slowly starting to like it, despite its limitations.