Drupal 7.x

Hi,
I'd like to get a list of tasks I need to complete in order to create a Drupal installation which contains all of the features of WordPress and a magazine-style theme. I started looking into this and it appears daunting. Is there an installation profile which will accomplish this? I tried two installation profiles available on this site and couldn't get either working.

So far I have:
1) Drupal - standard installation
2) WYSIWYG - FCK
3) Panels (? - not so sure about this - this module seems to obscure my control over the page layout)
4) Something to help with Image management
5) Implement Drupal Theme to meet basic magazine-style site layout requirements

This may be completely wrong and/or may be missing several other needed modules.

One particular area that I am stumped on is with formatting the main content of the page. In wordpress the templates are easily identifiable and easily edited. In Drupal I can find $content and I have no idea how to control how this main content is displayed. I discovered that the Panels module helps but it also had limitations in that I couldn't find a plain old php file to edit in order to modify output.

For reference the WP theme I have used looks like this:
http://branfordmagazine.com/

Anyone know of a fix or can help here?

Has anyone had any recent experience with integrating Drupal with iMIS technology? If you have can you please give me an overview of the potential opportunities and pitfalls that we might encounter?

Your input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jonathan

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We are considering Drupal because we know it is a popular CMS, and we don't want to have to build our own. I understand that we can use Drupal to store, edit, preview, and render content, and also manage workflow. But can we:

I want to do like the following.Users can share pictures only with their friends.Which module is suitable for this requirement?someone help me please.

hey everybody
I made this new site but since I have integrated CS script to the site
for a menus effect, but every new visitor get a warning and must confirm to activate this function

my question- how can I crate this effect without this problem
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Gali