I am working on using Drupal as a CMS to reduce the maintenance work for a web site. It has great promise. Using it, I can set up a site and configure the look and feel, and the overall site content structure. Then I can turn over the daily maintenance of the site content to the content owners. This lets me concentrate on the structure, and allows me to take advantage of what a CMS can offer, like maintenance of menus so that I can change it once and have it affect all of the site. I looked at a number of CMS before I settled on Drupal. I used Xoops for another site, AARP CA2 Technology, which worked fairly well, but I found that Xoops had some disadvantages, mainly the documentation available online and in print, and the helpfulness of the online forums. So far, Drupal has provided better information. I also found that Drupal was used to maintain some really high powered and high profile sites, while I could not find the same level of users for either Xoops or Joomla, the other CMS that I examined. I am still climbing the learning curve on Drupal, and will share some of that with you. I am working on porting the web site of a non-profit that I support, Christopher's Haven, as a test of how to get things done. It has several features that are fairly common and need to be available. The home page is different from the sub pages. All pages have a horizontal drop-down menu. I recently changed the drop-down menu due to some issues with Internet Explorer 7, mainly that the drop-down part failed to work any more. I had built it as a pure CSS menu, which was elegant but ultimately fragile in my environment (Lotus Domino 6.5 as the web engine, with all of the code as "pass thru" html. This introduced a lot of unpleasantness. It's a long story....) After some effort to repair it, I found that the best way to repair it was to change to a Javascript based menu system. I found a good one and implemented it. I have one lingering problem, which is that the menu looks slightly different on IE and Firefox. I tuned the menu to be "right" on IE and "OK" on Firefox. I settled on the Zen theme, which is very nice, imho. The subpages have a menu that is unique to a group of subpages. I found a nice solution for the subpage menu that takes advantage of a contributed module, menu_trim. I learned how to use a different page format for the home page. I learned how to use graphics instead of text for the top level menu. So far, so good. Now my effort is directed to how to reproduce my horizontal drop down menus. Stay tuned....