Confused about Joomla, can i use it alongside my existing CSS/HTML page?

[DJMK4]

Im looking into joomla for content management, but its going on about templates etc, it looks like something that can build a blog etc.

Before I start spending my hours reading up on this, all I want joomla at this stage to do is to easy manage my content, I have my own CSS template that I have created, can this be done? or is Joomla a whole new way of creating websites?

 

[DJMK4]

Anyone?

As an example, say if i had my own CSS design, and I had a mainbody div, and a sidebar div, instead of editing each individuals page html file with the content, I would like to update it from a single location, including the sidebar which will be a newsfeed (so it will be the same on each page).

 

[reefoid]

Yes, you can use your existing html and css in Joomla. You'll need to make some changes, such as:

• adding component and module code into your html
• moving your html into the template directory
• create sections/categories/articles for your content
• a few other bits

Take a look on the Joomla site, I'm pretty sure there are some tutorials about this on it.

edit...Here you go:

http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/joomla15/static_to_joomla.htm
http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_Convert_an_existing_Web_site_to_a_Joomla!_Web_site