( After a few days effort - I already have a working prototype site - with a phptemplate engine based custom template evolving incrementally as I learn. )
Drupal measures up quite well against competing open source products I have begun to evaluate.
I have been evaluating CMS systems for my own use.
After looking at many systems and their pros and cons - drupal is very practical.
Drupal has many more fully implemented features than the other open source CMS systems.
I have been searching for a (simple) task management module (very similar to a to-do list module). The project module is too sophisticated for my taste and the event module has been made for a different purpose. The only task management module I found does not run on 4.6.
I'm considering downloading Drupal, but I have a question first. I want news rss feeds shown on drupal and for people to vote on which stories are best. Then the users can either have the best ones on top or the worst ones. Can this be done using Drupal?
I have been working on AJAX updates to the event.module calendar block, and there's now a working patch. The effect is so 'magical', but more importantly such an improvement to the functionality of the block, that I decided to implement the block updating as generic as possible so parts of it can be repurposed for/shared with other modules (eg using a blockupdate.js in /misc).
What blocks would benefit from dynamic updates through AJAX?