When I was first told of cms in early 2004, was told re Drupal: but had a look at drupal, and couldn't make head nor tail of "nodes" etc, and didn't see I could readily make site as I wished: chiefly with articles with images.
I found Mambo, used this and successor Joomla.
Now having another look at Drupal - partly as I've been asked re doing site that would involve info with various categories for individual items.
A few thoughts here; ups and downs, some ideas. (and not useful to just post and tell me I'm welcome to do the coding - I'm aware of that, but dunno code I'm afraid)
Drupal has progressed, and can see that can indeed make belting sites, with images, videos, the works.
But oh dear, this main site.... (I'll post to documentation re this)
Install was easy.
Easy enough to create a basic page, choose from range of themes. And - presto! - a basic site.
But also a fair amount of hassle. Yes, a learning curve to be expected, but still not a cinch.
First, to get usability as I'd wish, need fair numbers of modules.
Some of these would seem fundamental - such as pathauto, the module for meta tags.
I installed fckeditor, had some troubles, but about ok.
But - alarming to add image with editor, and find it didn't show in pages. Had to look around to find out about Filtered HTML, and fact that (for some reason) this stripped out my images.