Can a Drupal site convincingly masquerade as a boring static web page?

My hosting provider makes it incredibly easy for me to get Drupal up and running. I am a CSS-focussed web designer new to Drupal I'd like to set up some HTML-illiterati friends up with one-page sites on their own domains and then hand them over the keys.

Specifically, I want to know if Drupal can be easily made to:

this is my first major upgrade and I have several questions. but my main one is the contrib mods.

If they are not in the 4.6 tabbed section does that mean they might not come over or that they are still being worked on?

I'm working out a online store using drupal but so far I've not seen any ecommerce solutions which allow me to track and automatically add a consignment fee based on a percentage of item's price. We need to be able to track the consignment cash flow of each person's sales through the website. Is there such a solution?

any help would be appreciated

I’m wondering if Drupal would be appropriate for a small town (15,000) weekly newspaper’s on-line site? One of the things that concerns me is the menuing system, which I am convinced for a newspaper type needs to be “hierarchical”, and I gather that the default menuing system is not? Ideas, input, comments?

-- Jake Bottero

I'm working up my first multi-site with drupal (and thanks to all posters - I was able to do the entire prefix setup via reading the posts, took a few passes on the stuff at the bottom, but I got it)

I opted not to share any tables, can I use "Directory Server" locally? instead of sharing my users table?

example

site1.mymainsite.com
mymainsite.com

then set Directory Server to mymainsite.com? and then users passwords would be work at both sites?

Pros and Cons?

thanks

Hi,

I have a great interest in rare music (70's library, funk,soul and electronic) and have been collecting a lot over the past years. I am now very keen in starting up a non-profit website catered for vinyl collectors who may already have a vast collection of unknown hidden gems and would like to share their interest to the public, like i do. I hope to built up a massive database of rare collectible music online and to help myself and others in tracking down more dusty grooves which have been lost or forgotten.

Technically, i have knowledge in HTML, CSS, server management and recently some basic MySQL4 with PHP5. As you can see i have an immense learning to catch up in programming, therefore is looking at building a site without too much technical work (even though i am keen to learn but i am building this site on my own and have many other work to consider as well).

What i require for my site is:

- Category for genres/artists/songs
- A - Z listings
- A minute audio sample clips for each song
- Users are able to contribute their own music and upload their own mp3s
- Rating for each song
- Voting system (i think Drupal already has one)
- Fourm (i think Drupal already has one)

One great example of a site i want to create, would be across between:

http://www.funk45.com/ (good looking site with audio clips) and http://www.discogs.com/ (good informative website)