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Just installed Drupal 7 on a Debian Virtual Machine.

It's so clean and it just feels very solid. Lots of things you can do in there.

Probably a good idea to check out drupal's own description of their software before doing anything serious with it. I liked this description:

"Drupal is like a Lego kit. Skilled developers have already made the building blocks - in the form of contributed modules - that you need to create a site that suits your needs, whether that is a news site, an online store, a social network, blog, wiki, or something else altogether."

Without doing any selections or configurations. You will not see anything if you log on as a non-admin user. I created an article and that is all the normal user can see. So for it to be able to see anything else, you need to make that available.

Initially it appears that Drupal requires a lot of work for it to become useable. Especially for a larger organization or if you have multiple purposes/intentions with the site.

It also turns out I don't have the time to continue with this project at the moment (Final Fantasy IX taking my spare time).

That's why I will be publishing this post now and I will try to continue on this thread when I have the time.

Another good thing with running your test setup in a VM: shut it down - and when you have the time you can just boot it up again and continue from the exact same place.