This may seem trivial, but all I read about Drupal, including the introduction in the ORA book that arrived today stresses the application of the Drupal framework/CMS for community-content based Web sites (or e-commerce sites). My very small consulting company doesn't fall in either category.
Most of the pages on our site are static; I'll add new newsletters or white papers to the documents.shtml page, but that's about it. I would like to add polls, a form-based e-mail capability for those who prefer to ask for information that way rather than via regular e-mail, and -- perhaps -- the ability to comment on issues raised in newsletters and white papers. This is why I ask whether Drupal is really the appropriate tool for me to learn and apply.
I don't know that any professional services consulting company's Web site actually generates clients. I know that a poor site can drive away potential clients, but in the 17 years I've run my business no one has hired us because they found our Web site somehow and decided they needed our services. Of course, if I can actually generate new business via a spiffy, Durpal-based site, I'll be very pleased to have that result.
You can see the current site at http://www.appl-ecosys.com/. I'm completely open to suggestions to make it more of an attactant, and whether Drupal is appropriate for this type of site.
Rich