Converting to Drupal

Has anyone migrated a site(s) from Oracle UCM over to Drupal (without moving each file individually)? I'd like to set up a proof of concept site (i.e., migrate our existing site over with a minimum of time invested) and would love to know if there are any tips or tricks to efficiently moving over a bunch of data from UCM.

Hi,

I'm converting the company websites to use Drupal, or at least trying to check that its going to be the best way forward. I have a background in PHP development, and I'm currently using the CakePHP framwork. I've built this site (not my design) and I can see how to replicate most of the functionality using Drupal, most likely using the CCK module.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yk6u8mt

As you can see from the homepage:

I have just started using Drupal. Grateful for any help. I am not an engineer and hence finding the going tough.
I have about 20 pages of web site content that is already written in HTML. I cut and paste into the Drupal WYSIWYG editor and store the files and everything works fine.

If I am rebuilding my site at /test can I remove all files in that direct to my root once I have finished rebuilding?

Rank beginner here (my experience is with Wordpress & Joomla!). I have a CD from a client of an old site made by someone else, old site no longer in existence, which I believe was built with Drupal 5.7. CD has 2 files: xxx.tgz and xxxdb.tgz. When I unpack these files with 7-zip, I get two .tar files with the same names. When I unpack those, I get lots of files, including a folder called "drupal 5.7" (hence my belief above).

What I want to do is just get the content out of the old site. The client's current web host doesn't support Drupal so we will decide what to do with the content later, if it can be extracted from the files on CD. I don't think it was a very big or complicated site, at all. Should I just install Drupal 5.7 from the folder that is on the CD? (I am reluctant to do this because I hear that this version will be incompatible with my installed version of XAMPP.) Is there a way to unpack the existing site/db into a new install of Drupal? I have had miserable FAIL trying to do this very thing using Wordpress in the past.

I have poked around quite a bit in the documentation, support and forums, but couldn't seem to find anything that addresses my specific situation -- partly because I'm not even sure what the files I have ARE. Are they a backup of the old site, such that I could use the backup/migrate process into a newer version of Drupal?

I've had more experience with Wordpress than Drupal where I am encountering a problem. The existing site being migrated utilizes SSI with SHTML files that call for SSI files for the header menu and drop down menu.

It would be nice to bring in the header system intact but thus far have been unable to do it in Drupal while in Wordpress it took less than 5 minutes. Still I am interested in the CMS capability of Drupal and willing to suffer the extra time but now at a dead end.