Classic-Horror.com is my horror film review and discussion website. It's fairly popular and we've been a Yahoo Pick of the Day. Roger Ebert once mentioned us in his review for Jason X. As of June 15th, 2007 at 12:59PM PST, the site runs on Drupal 4.7.
I'd been hand-coding the site for eight years and eventually I decided that it was time for a change. I started planning on how to convert the site to a dynamic format. I tried coding my own CMS from the ground up, but the coding process grew frustrating. I soon realized that everything I wanted to do, I could do in Drupal. I finally switched the project to Drupal sometime after the release of the MovieDB project, which, with some tweaking, did pretty much everything I needed it to.
The process of transferring everything over was arduous and survived multiple changes to the site's overall structure (including a complete overhaul of the design). I will admit a few of the things I did to make the site fit my perfect vision are not good Drupal coding and do not take advantage of the system's modular nature. I plan to fix this when I eventually upgrade the site to 5.0. Lessons learned.