I am currently in the process of finalizing an e-commerce design that will be implemented using x-cart. I already have a developer that will be working on that part of the project. While the site will mainly be a store, it will link off to another site that will be content oriented. I want to use drupal to run the second site.
The second site would need to have the same header and footer as the x-cart site (at least as far as look and feel and the link behavior) in order to have a seamless visual / user experience. Users should not know they've left one site and entered another, so theme/skin quality will be top priority (designs will be provided).
For phase 1, aside from the theme/skin work, I would like to have some simple integration with x-cart. The x-cart design uses a traditional e-commerce login that requests an email and password for credentials. I would like these credentials used to log users in and out of drupal also.
Additionally, phase 1 will focus only on getting articles setup (no blogs, forums, etc. -- at least not yet). Though it would be nice to have a voting system like www.netscape.com -- but not mission critical.
The only users that will post articles will be admins. General users will only be allowed to post comments about the articles at this time.
That's the project in a nutshell. If you're curious about the design and what's involved with the theme/skin work, send me a private message and I'll email you a few screen shots.