Joomla migration

ModelersGuild.com Drupal migration project.

I have been playing with CMS for 5 years now. Mainly Joomla and have tried drupal many times in the past. The reason Joomla worked for me is the products were available out of the box and drupal is ground up creation. Why Drupal, why now, I met a graphic designer that is signed on to build this site with me.

Migrating the Guild, we have around 100 articles and 200 members to port over, there is a bunch of other data available to port but I can handle starting over on that. I used this project (http://drupal.org/project/joomla) and the main User/articles/sections/categories ported fine, WOW cool. I am interested in comments from jomcomment and possibly other stuff but I am happy if that is out of reach for me.

I am more interested in setting up a clean content creation entries for blog, forum, railside (a sceneic location to photograph trains), Magazine article, model gallery, research article, Add you blog. By clean up I mean the entry screen is a bit confusing in drupal, I prefer common entries be expended by defualt or just displayed better. I have been informed of vertical menus.

I would like advise on how to...

handle taxonomies in terms of the magazine and various theme pages.

Add a workflow for editing and proofreading articles before publication, using workflows.