General discussion

I have a client who's looking to migrate the site for her non-profit news organization away from their current custom-built cms, to something more flexible and better supported. It's about a 5000-ish page site with archived articles dating back about 25 years.

My first thought was that Drupal would be a great choice for this, because I've seen several examples of drupal sites of similar scale and content.

If a site serves a page of the type application/xhtml+xml (or, I assume, any other type that results in following an XML processing path rather than an HTML one) to a user on the admin/logs page, the page will frequently fail to render due to an XML parsing error similar to the following:
"XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: ."

Further inspection usually finds that this is part of a log table entry beginning with:
<tr class="watchdog-page-not-found watchdog-warning dark">

Hi all.
As of yesterday I've been pulled into converting an existing static site into Drupal. Lots of it looks lovely, especially the ease of install. Then, as many seem to have done, I got stalled when trying to create a one-to-one mapping between old content and drupal 'nodes'. After much time in the handbook and archives, I'd like to share my conclusions, Yes, I think I've got the (or at least an) answer.

Can someone tell me if I've got the wrong end of the stick here?

Background in Information Theory

Drupals much-lamented non-traditional lack of heirachical topic nodes can be stated thus (I think).

A taxonomy term doesn't actually have content, it is merely a label for the container. Hence, a taxonoomy term is not a node, and clicking on a term takes you to a list, not a content block. This is Drupals behaviour, and this is what many folk regard as a 'problem' ... as did I for the first few hours of experimentation and research.

When you think about it, this IS actually analogous to how an URL or filesystem operates.

In /parent/dir/subdir/ , subdir IS NOT CONTENT, it CONTAINS content. :-}

Meditate on this 'till you get it.

I just launched my website about a week ago. I want to look for some way to list my site on google. Everywhere I see, they ask for money and stated will take several weeks to months. So, I decided to do it and learn by myself. Here are what I did:
1. I exchanged links at www.indexguy.com
2. Using pathauto module
3. Using gsitemap module

I'd like feedback on the bullets below. The intent is to provide would-be investors, brief reasons why we are chosing Drupal. I am sure there are better key messages that highlight the *uniqueness* of Drupal.
Maybe a modifed version of this would be useful in the Drupal Marketing Resources.