Converting to Drupal

Hi,
I'm considering shifting my site from Mambo to Drupal. I've installed a basic Drupal system
on a test box and I likes what I sees! Nice.

I'd like to changeover to Drupal, one reason is that with the template I'm using in Mambo
the main section of the front page is not editable (I have to edit the index.php file in vi) .
Basically the nice chap who did the initial template for my site in Mambo did it in two seperate
templates, with the front page having its own.

Hello all,
my name is lorenzo and I'm member of ariadnecms.it staff, a website dealing about content management systems and accessibility, for italian users. This site is currently managed with Mambo CMS (Joomla), ok... I know... don't blame on me! But now we decided to port the whole site (graphics and contents) to Drupal. Here is our current site:

http://www.ariadnecms.it/index.php

While a "work in progress" for drupal porting is available at

I am working with the owner of poopreport.com and porting it from html to Drupal. The port is mostly finished and can be viewed at www.nerdspatrols.net. Problem is it really slow. Because this is a port it already has 1,388 nodes, 31,511 comments, 553 users and 1,405 url aliases. Someone monitoring the server said db calls where averaging 2000/hr which does not seem that high to me.

Hi kids,

Our community television center in Cambridge converted our site into a drupal-based environment with the intent to increase electronic participation on the part of our site visitors. We have outrageous traffic, millions of hits per month, an active real life membership, etc, but almost no participation on our web-oriented features.

Are there tips for increasing usership/contributions on our site? Certain features, certain methods, certain philosophies? Please help!

http://www.cctvcambridge.org

I have a lot of code I need to port to Drupal, have searched the site and can't find a topic that gets me over the hump on this so . . .

A simple MySQL query on my non-Drupal sites would be:

I am converting an html based site over to Drupal; it has a few hundred pages which are currently all listed in a multi-page sitemap. Because I believe that Google and other search engines will only read about the first 100 links or so on a page, I would like to keep the sitemap format as is.

Does the sitemap module allow for this, or do I need to create my sitemap manually? How are other people handling this for large sites?