[support] Porting from Static Menu to Taxonomy Question

[Tod Thomas]

I have just spent a week or so evaluating Drupal and find it to be a 
very mature, very comprehensive CMS.

I want to port a static html web site over to Drupal and I'd like to do 
it in such a way that moving forward I can take advantage of the 
features that Drupal provides.  One of the things I have been struggling 
with is what to with its current static navigation menu.

I started by recreating that menu (list of single hyperlinks) using the 
core Drupal menu module.  That works but I think as the site matures and 
I attract more viewers, and thereby over time more content, I'd probably 
want to go with the menu derived from a taxonomy.

I tried replicating the menu with the taxonomy_menu module.  I defined 
each category with one of the list menu items from above, defining no 
terms for now.  I did this because over time I expect the taxonomy to 
fill out and as this happens I could add the appropriate terms as necessary.

When I was all done I had my menu re-created but I had no way no 
associate a particular node with each item.  Now I'm stuck.

Should I expect this to work, or is the only purpose of a category to 
provide a link to select that will expand and display its associated, 
selectable term item?

Thanks - Tod