[drupal-support] Is Drupal the Right CMS?

[Dan Robinson]

Mike,

Welcome to Drupal! ;).  Good questions all.  I highly recommend that you 
take some time to work with Drupal.  It takes a little while to figure 
out not only what is there, but also the "Drupal Way".  In short, there 
is a fairly steep (but relatively short), learning curve.  After which 
you will really enjoy the views.    The nice thing about investing time 
in Drupal is that the investment pays off.

Dan

> Hi,
>     I want to use a CMS for a new project I am working on (tired of
> managing all HTML by hand). Drupal is one of the Fantastico-equipped
> scripts that my ISP offers. I see other sites doing neat things with 
> Drupal but I have no idea how to make it do these things.
>
>     The first thing that bothered me was that every bit of content was 
> very blog-like (displaying user and time posted). This site is going 
> to have static pages that do not necessarily need such information. I 
> figured out how to turn off that header via the theme configuration. 
> Out of story and article, what do I want to use for static content 
> (e.g., an "About" page)?
>
>     I noticed that the book module has an option to display a 
> printer-friendly display option. How come this is not the case on 
> other types of content?
>
>     I need to make a navigation menu block. I notice that the 
> "Navigation" module is enabled by default. But I do not see how to do 
> anything with that block. I can make another block for navigation 
> options and populate it with an HTML list of links to the appropriate 
> pages within the site. But that feels like it violates the CMS model.
>