Drupal 6.x

I have a css theme that I've built for a news site. I was recently using Joomla for the cms, but now I'm choosing to use Drupal for varies reasons (I just think Drupal is better that Joomla overall). The problem is that I do not as of yet grasp how to use Drupal. I've been reading tutorials here and there but they seem to only cover the basics. I need more dynamic examples. I'm not good with PHP which could be part of the problem as Drupal seems more for PHP Developers. I hear alot about CCK, Views, and Panels being basically foundation for building a site. What I need is a real world example for using this elements. My site has varies sections where article teasers/list are. I read about nodes and understand what they are and how to use them in a basic manner and about adding $content in the main content area in the page.tpl.php but what if my main content area has different content areas? Here's my CSS theme and maybe someone is willing to help me understand how to structure it correctly for use in drupal.
I'm not looking for someone to do it for me as I like learning own my own. I just need a push in the right direction!
Here it is:

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">



Mysite

Hi,

Untill present day I have coded my own applications or use a complex CMS called eZ publish, but the performance osf this tool is not, so to say, convincing.

I'm planning to start a new project, which bassically has to achieve the following features:

We are replacing with 6.x RC4 for a travel guide site with OpenResort module and few other 5.x modules...What're the Possible and Avoidable Common Issues? We're much familiar with 5.x, though.

I'm trying to buid a simple module with a custom node and form , based on the example provided here : http://api.drupal.org/api/function/node_example_form/6

I have build the custom form and it works fine when I edit the node (through the standard "Edit tab", but what I would like to do now is reuse the form (let's say on another tab declared for my node-type).

I'm new to Drupal and testing it on my localhost. Apache 2.2, PHP 5.2.4, and MySQL 5.0 are installed. After uncompressing drupal-6.0-rc4.tar.gz to a htdocs\drupal6 directory, localhost/drupal6 shows this:

Index of /drupal6

I'm looking for an entire site to be created. I have most of project sketched out.

Please contact me via email if you are interested in bidding on this project.

J.R.