Hi everybody,
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:
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!
A) Now the important question: 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).
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?
How can a CMS that offers such a wealth of expansability have such a fundamental restriction?
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! Thanks for helping!
B) Now the minor important question: 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? (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.)
Thanks a lot for helping
Reinhard
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