hi,
I've recently started using Drupal (a very big thank you to all the developers by the way - it's excellent and I haven't looked back since) and I'd appreciate some feedback on these first two sites with custom-made phptemplate themes.
http://www.thomaseagle.com is my own design/photography portfolio site
http://www.cosmealeadership.org is a small (read: cheap) site for a client
Neither makes full use of all the drupal features and modules yet, and as a php cut-and-paster rather than real programmer, I'm only just getting stuck into the guts of it... I hope I'll be able to give something back to drupal soon.
Both sites have been labours of love in terms of theming and some very basic, decorative flash bits and bobs. In both cases, I wanted to hide the menus and only show the primary navigation links to anonymous users. thomaseagle.com uses the flexiblock module with custom content types for web & print portfolio items. I tried acidfree for the photography, but then reverted to image and image import. Path is indispensible. Cosmealeadership.org uses a flash header/background that changes the flash object based on node id.
I'm using i18n but only just starting with translations, and finding that this very useful module sometimes doesn't work in conjunction with others... as an Englishman in Italy, I agree with many users that it would be great if i18n were part of drupal core... it sets drupal above most cms apps I've used or seen in the past (from MovableType - which I love but can't cope with translation of content - through Jahia - which I hate, but can cope with translation but clunckily - up to ATG Dynamo - which I only know very superficially for obvious reasons).