I just wanted to share my efforts to produce a local government website with Drupal. The following link brings you to the site, still in development:
http://www.alpinecountyca.com/drupal/
[edit: live version: http://www.alpinecountyca.com ]
I thought this might be a good thread to discuss not only what I've tried to put together (feedback is appreciated), but also what else can be done to create a solid government website with Drupal. I think corporate sites and government sites might have a lot in common, as they are both hierarchal organizations that often require very structured sites. So this thread might not deviate greatly from some of the existing discussions about corporate sites.
I've hacked together the spread firefox and lincoln's revenge themes to produce a semi-custom look (thank you factoryjoe). I've used tables to kill whitespace issues with my theme. How important is originality and modifications of the stock theme in this case? Have I done enough to differentiate my theme from the stock themes everyone can download (a good question, I think)?
I'm using the following modules (in addition to many core modules): attachment (for the darn title feature!-- why isn't this a part of the core upload module?), article, copyright, custom error, event, excerpt, feedback, filebrowser (not the officially released module-- but a taxonomy file browser), filemanager, filestore2, flexinode, fscache, image, img_assist, layout (not an officially released module-- and currently not utilizing its features--soon for the front page), nodelist, nodeperm_role, pathauto, poormanscron, relativity, taxonomy_context, taxonomy_dhtml (for my sitemap), tinymce, webform, workspace, and the weather module (deburka's updated version). This seems like a lot, but all of these seem somewhat necessary, if not convenient for what I needed to accomplish. Is there anything in this list that is placing a burden on page loads? Security? Etc. I'm not sure.