Drupal is one of the most powerful open source content management system, voted by community and professionals as the best Open Source CMS in last two years. I have built many websites with Drupal, and found it a great solution for almost all kind of websites from simple blog to large corporate presentations.

Getting help on Drupal.org

• Visit the Drupal’s handbook, where you will find a huge amount of Drupal tutorials and reciepes, community contributed videos, slides, tutorials and how to articles.
• Visit the forum od Drupal.org, where you will find answers to almost every single Drrupal related question you might have.
• Support page on Drupal.org is also be great place to find information to get started, get documented and get help. You will find training resources, books about Drupal, support providers, mailing lists, IRC rooms, guides…
• Planet Drupal should be your next stop on drupaloshpere – it is an aggregator of (currently) 309 drupal related blogs, with great and highly useful information.
• Drupal Groups can also be a great place to find people working with Drupal in your area, find job, talk about issues realted to your interests and proffesion – see Design for Drupal group if you are a designer.Watch videos of sessions from Drupal conferences in Washington DC and Szeged

Here are some typical Drupal usages:

• Content management – Via a simple, browser-based interface, members can publish stories, blogs, polls, images, forums, etc. Administrators can easily customize the design of their Drupal installation.
• The Drupal classification system allows hierarchical ordering, cross-indexing of posts and multiple category sets for most content types. Access to content is controlled through administrator-defined user roles. A search option is also available.
• Weblog – A single installation can be configured as an individual personal weblog site or multiple individual weblogs. Drupal supports the Blogger API, provides RSS feeds for each individual blog and can be set to ping weblog directories when new content is posted on the home page.
• Discussion-based community – A Drupal web site can be successfully used as a discussion forum. Comment boards, attached to most content types, make it simple for members to discuss new posts. Administrators can control whether content and comments are posted without approval, with administrator approval or through community moderation. With the built-in news aggregator, communities can subscribe to and then discuss content from other sites.
• Collaboration – Used for managing the construction of Drupal, the project module is suitable for supporting other open source software projects. The wiki-like collaborative book module includes versions control, making it simple for a group to create, revise and maintain documentation or any other type of text.
• FAQ – you can use the Drupal installation as a frequently asked questions platform.