Converting to Drupal

Im thinking of moving to Drupal. Our site has several pages that are pure static content only. I was wondering, does Drupal have the ability to publish these so that there would be no interaction with a database? This would mean a lot lower load on our servers etc. Or does Drupal literally have to serve every page as new from the database each time it is loaded?

Any advice appreciated.

Does anyone have any experience with Drupal? How does it compare to Drupal?

What about some of the ruby-on-rails stuff (like typo)?

I have a bunch of email conversations in Outlook that I'd like to import into Drupal, probably with the initial email being the node body and the follow ups included as comments. Does anyone have any experience doing this in an automated fashion?

I'm currently attempting to convert a large webcomic to drupal, however, beyond CSS my coding skills are not the strongest. I've installed webcomic module, and as far as uploading goes it suites my needs. However, I need to break the output of content down into two parts, a newspost and the comic, so that I can have them in two seperate columns on the site. Since both the content and newspost are expressed as $content, I'm not sure how to do this.

I'm building an online store for a small fashion clothing company using Actionsript and PHP, that will incorporate a Drupal powered Ecommerce package and CMS. I've built my share of websites using multiple program languages, client and server side, but I have yet to build anything a complex as a CMS. Drupal appears to have all the features needed but I have yet to find a clear example with a full scale online shop. Has anyone done done this successfully and are there more demos/examples that I can see and show my client?

Thanks!
Designer turned Techfiend

I’m looking for a way to convert from another CMS; I have an MT-Import text file (not an XML file).

I found the “Import TypePad” module but it doesn’t seem to have been updated for Drupal 4.7 yet. The author’s Web page seems to have disappeared. I’d love if it someone could assist by updating this module; I lack the requisite skill. (However, I’d be willing to chip in for a bounty to any developer that could update it to the point where I could use it with my MT-Import file — which I could provide — and Drupal 4.7.)

TIA.