[support] More than one template possible?

[Reinhard Mohr]

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






Reinhard Mohr
Journalismus & Fotografie
Goteboldstraße 54 A
80999 München

Tel. 089 / 89 22 07 12
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ReinhardMohr at reinhardmohr.de
http://www.reinhardmohr.de



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