Hi,
I'm about to start work on migrating some sites from another CMS solution. Whilst I'm confidant Drupal is the right way to go there are a few parts I'm still not sure on.
To give you some background I currently have 4-5 websites on the current CMS that I'm looking to migrate, other than the theme/skin and a few bits of content i.e. home page they are pretty much the same site. Currently I structure the content as follows:-
/base_content/home
/base_content/section1/page1
/base_content/section2/subsection1
/base_content/section2/subsection2
/base_content/section2/subsection2/page1
/base_content/section2/subsection3
/base_content/section3/page1
/site1/home
/site1/section3/page1
/site2/section2/subsection2
The base_content contains the base version of the site, site1 and site 2 contain the customizations that override the base version i.e. requesting www.site1.com/home will serve the overridden /site1/home content but on site 2 (www.site2.com/home) the home page hasn't been overriden so the base_content/home content will be served instead.
My sites have around 2000+ pages of content so I need to be able to manage it in a hierarchy otherwise it'll become unmanageable. I'd also like to avoid duplicating content if possible to minimize authoring, overhead of duplicating and keeping the number of content pages down to a minimum.