<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi everybody,</div><div><br></div><div>I am relatively new to Drupal and I hope someone on this mailing list can help me with one important and one still minor important question:</div><div><br></div><div>I have used another CMS (cmsmadesimple) and found it relatively easy to use but with some limitations. So I looked around and found Drupal. I have installed it, played around with it and I am now a good way through the getting-started-pages. By now it seems to be well documented and very well organized: Compliments to the people who made it!</div><div><br></div><div>A) Now the important question: </div><div>In my old CMS I could create templates for pages; let‘s say one with three columns (template1), one with a header (template2), one without a header (template3), one with two columns (template4). Everytime I create a new page now I can choose from an easy to use drop-down menu that just says "template1/template2/template3/template4". And then automatically the page is created using this template (afterwards at any time I can switch the page design using this drop-down menu).</div><div><br></div><div>This is a feature that I am totally missing with Drupal. Everything is easy to understand and well documented. But there seems to be only one template per theme. So can I only have one page layout per theme?!? (I am not meaning forum pages with this theme or some special kind of page but just "plain" and "standard" pages.) For example: Must all the pages on my site have three columns because I only have one site-wide template that specifies three columns?</div><div><br></div><div>How can a CMS that offers such a wealth of expansability have such a fundamental restriction?</div><div><br></div><div>Or maybe I just didn't find the trick by now? I searched a lot of documents but I am not really sure how Drupal calls this functionality? So I found things like "suggested templates", "subthemes", a "section module". But I am a little bit afraid I might just have missed something or might to easily gho into the wrong way. Please help!</div><div>Thanks for helping!</div><div><br></div><div>B) Now the minor important question:</div><div>Setting up Drupal and creating the first page was easy. Editing it was easy, too. But I could only write plain text that obviously was formatted by preconfigured css. My question arose how I can a) integrate an editor like FCKeditor and b) write or paste html into the page I edit?</div><div>(I think I will run into the solutions for this minor question as I progress further through the documentation. But as I was already posting questions here maybe someone could give me a quick hint? Thanks! But the first question is the really important one.)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot for helping</div><div><br></div><div>Reinhard</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Geneva" size="2" color="#008000" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Geneva; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Reinhard Mohr</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Geneva" size="2" color="#008000" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Geneva; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; ">Journalismus & Fotografie</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Geneva" size="2" color="#008000" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Geneva; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; ">Goteboldstraße 54 A</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Geneva" size="2" color="#008000" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Geneva; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; ">80999 München</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Geneva; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); min-height: 14px; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; "><br style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; "></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Geneva" size="2" color="#008000" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Geneva; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; ">Tel. 089 / 89 22 07 12</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Geneva" size="2" color="#008000" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Geneva; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; ">Fax 089 / 89 22 07 13</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Geneva; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); min-height: 14px; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; "><br style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; "></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Geneva" size="2" color="#008000" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Geneva; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; "><a href="mailto:ReinhardMohr@reinhardmohr.de">ReinhardMohr@reinhardmohr.de</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Geneva" size="2" color="#008000" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Geneva; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10px; "><a href="http://www.reinhardmohr.de">http://www.reinhardmohr.de</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#008000" face="Geneva" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><br></span></font></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>