Converting to Drupal

We are working on doing a migration of thousands of XML files that contains 3 (or 4) separate sections. We would like to find the optimal way to do the migration. I will lay out the way the XML file looks, then tell you what we are considering and ask you for your thoughts.

Hi,

I'm migrating from D6 to D7. One of my content type has URL alias based on token
Drupal 6
/something/[title-raw]

Drupal 7
/something/[node:title]

The node URL alias in Drupal 6 is:
mydomain.com/something/araujo-guntin

the node URL alias in Drupal 7 is:
mydomain.com/something/araujo_guntin

There are a difference between the hyphen and underscore in the token. I need to keep the same URL in the migration. What can I do?

Thanks,

Currently my site which consists of many Bootstrap .htm product files is using a main javascript module (.js file) containing all the product attributes for the web page FORM, so when a product is displayed, all the selectable options are displayed for the product for the user to choose from. These product attributes are also "tied into" the outdated shopping cart I'm using which was written a long time ago. So when a user selects the desired product options, the product get added to the shopping cart appropriately.

Hello, thanks in advance to the one reading this post. :)

i have done some time ago a website for a footbal club in Joomla. there is a forum, Agora, that is a good one, but now i want to redo teh full website in Drupal. What i will do is to redo the site in local, and then push it completely new to the server to replace the old one. So no migration for the content itself.

the main feature used in the website is the forum, that has lots of content... It is the component called 'Agora', not the 'pro' version. the previous one.

I am a novice, having only been tinkering with website building for a few years.

I am working on two websites right now. The first is a new Drupal 7 site with which I have learned the basics of Drupal, the second is a replacement for an existing Joomla site and is the subject of this question.

I have created a test. subdirectory under my Joomla site in which I have built the new Drupal version, and it is almost ready to migrate. Below are the steps I am planning to take, but am wondering if there is anything I am missing.

We are getting a Drupal development company to build our new website. In the initial quote which puts hours against each task, creating a new content type is given an estimate 8 hours to do. Is this accurate? it seems quite high for it to take a whole day to build one content type.