I have been hand-coding HTML (BBEdit) for several years now, running my photography/educational website
http://www.junglephotos.com
I use Mambo to run a news archive, http://www.junglephotos.com/cms
I built a simple database, so have some rudimentary skills in that area (using phpMyAdmin, for example). I am not a coder/developer, but I can usually figure out how to integrate/adapt code into pages to make things work. (See wiki and forum for example.)
I have monetized the site, and want to keep that aspect.
Basically I want to upgrade the look, interactivity and features.
Sooooo, the questions:
1. Do I have the skills needed to implement Drupal as a complete CMS solution?
2. How good is Drupal support for RSS? e.g., I want to implement RSS support for every page (not just the frontpage as in Mambo-- a majpr shortcoming IMHO)
3. What theme would be most suitable?
4. What issues should I consider in migrating content? (I figure it will take a year or so to move all existing static pages to the Drupal template.)
5. Can I create a user community that can contribute blog-style to comment on particular pages, and rank those accordingly, so that users can see the most popular/highly ranked pages?
6. What are major problems, issues with installation, maintenance, stability, etc. I should know about?