I had a lovely Xoops site but unfortunately it got hacked... and the server owner has asked me to re-install everything from scratch. Unfortunately I had made lots of modifications to the modules and, in any event, would need to install 2.0.15 rather than 2.2.x which has been discontinued. So, rather than do it essentially from scratch in xoops I looked around and was impressed by the focus on security here.
Before I get stuck in, I'd like to know the best way of obtaining similar results from Drupal. My site had the following features (I have included the module names for anyone familiar with xoops):
MAIN PAGE:
TOP LEFT: Menu (multimenu module) which, when an option is selected, displays 'sub'-options. Options were Home, Articles (extra options were the categories), Forums, Links, Search, User account, Contact.
TOP CENTRE: Welcome text - a few paragraphs.
BOTTOM CENTRE: Ten most recent forum posts, and ten most recent comments (on articles/links).
TOP RIGHT: Five most recent articles.
BOTTOM RIGHT: Five most recent links.
ARTICLES: (xfsection module)
Approximately ten categories with (so far) approximately five to ten articles in each. The main Articles page showed every article title divided into categories; it was possible to click the category name (for category details and article summaries) or the article title (to read it). A little image for each category.