Drupal

Here are many of the Drupal 6 modules I'm using, roughly in order of importance to my sites.

Optional Drupal Core modules

Comment, Contact, Menu, Path, Search, Taxonomy, Trigger, Update Status, Upload.

Pathauto

Converts URLs, to include words - such as from site sections, and article titles. May help with SEO, but also makes URLs more human friendly. Requires Token module.

Although Drupal is a whiz with text, able to sort text and perform feats with Taxonomy, it's a curious beast when it comes to images n photos.
It is possible to create superb, image rich sites with Drupal; but for a non coding type like me, there is scope for befuddlement.

I've written in another article on this site re my gradual disillusionment with Joomla!, and of considering switching to Drupal for some time. This had seemed a daunting prospect; there was an article on Drupal site about converting from Joomla, but involved digging around w MySQL databases - not something I felt up to.

I've had an email from someone asking me if it's worth migrating a Joomla 1.0 site to Joomla! 1.5 or - as I've done with a couple of sites, including this - to Drupal. (This site's Drupal 6; Drupal 5 remains current, too.) My reply:

I'd become more disenchanted w Joomla; built a Drupal site last year, and liked Drupal, inc the taxonomy - free tagging is the kind of thing you might like, so can assign keywords to articles, and Drupal readily gathers them.

I've been using Drupal 5, which has a nifty module for using Google Adsense. However, on moving sites to Drupal 6, found this module is yet to be upgraded (since I wrote this, a D6 version appeared; I did give it quick try, but for some reason my adsense block didn't show, and I promptly gave up! Should retry sometime).

I tried Adsense in a block within a Drupal 6 site, but it didn't work. So, searched for answer, and found in a thread on Drupal site.

Just posted this to drupal usability forum [1 Dec 08: adding some edits based on further experience, lest others stop by and read this]:

When I was first told of cms in early 2004, was told re Drupal: but had a look at drupal, and couldn't make head nor tail of "nodes" etc, and didn't see I could readily make site as I wished: chiefly with articles with images.
I found Mambo, used this and successor Joomla.

Now having another look at Drupal - partly as I've been asked re doing site that would involve info with various categories for individual items. [I've since switched to run sites on Drupal; meant "migrating" three sites from Joomla to Drupal, as I covered in another article here]
A few thoughts here; ups and downs, some ideas. (and not useful to just post and tell me I'm welcome to do the coding - I'm aware of that, but dunno code I'm afraid)