website cloning using Drupal

Submitted by zomal on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 14:58.

Hi!
I am new to drupal but have some basic idea of it. I am using xampp for Drupal for learning purposes. I have a basic idea of php but don't know much about it.

Basically I want to know that how can I clone another site using drupal. Can anyone give me a basic guideline about it or refer some good tutorial with a step by step practical example.

Say if anyone can explain it using a real website demonstration (any static running website)so I can have an idea.

So much thanks in advance.

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Cloning?

Submitted by imgfx on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 21:43.

Are you coming from another CMS like Joomla? I can 'almost' see that happening but it would involve clever and patient content MySQL remapping. That is not a task for a beginner. Nor one that I would advise for anyone unless you got gobs of data already formatted and categorized.

I recently "poured the content out of" a site that was flat HTML but had to cut copy and paste all the text to NotePad, to undo all the utterly inconsistent styles, (just because a document looks good to a human doesn't mean any search spider is gonna love it) re-structure the documents with basic HTML head, paragraph, UL, references etc in Dreamweaver, and then paste the html back into the text edit area. For each page.

There is no way to avoid it if you start with unstructured documents.

You then have to go and get really friendly with the CSS. I recommend using Firefox and Firebug to really see what is going on. Firebug is absolutely amazing so see what really is going on across the html, css, structure, etc. Wonderful stuff.

It was time consuming, but I am happy with the results. I can see some very wonderful strengths coming into my content now that the flat site has been replicated and I am starting to learn about the wonders of taxonomy.

That's what I really plan to feed the spiders. Big, hairy, heapin' steamy yummy gobs of taxonomy!