You can have a front page which looks totally different than the rest of the theme by creating page-front.tpl.php . If you are meaning to ask if you can drop in a static html page and have it linked to rest of the site, then i dont think its possible atleast not cleanly. I think you should implement the the static html design in page-front.tpl.php. <div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Steven Vermoere <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:steven@vermoere.net">steven@vermoere.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello,<br>
<br>
I have here a Drupal 5 installation. Now the user wants to show some<br>
new, static HTML pages for doing a campaign. But the old site must be<br>
accessible.<br>
<br>
How can I achieve this the easiest way ?<br>
<br>
Steven<br>
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