For starters, I am new at CMS's, even though I have been doing HTML based web sites since 1997. The sites are using the included themes. Either I find themes I can download online, or I will just have to figure out how to design them. On one site, I have three CMS sites that are for different reasons.
1. John Muir Alumni Drum Association - based in Pasadena California, a very successful drum corp feature students and alumni of several Pasadena schools. http://www.ymp.net/jmada/forever/
Ported across my entire site from a mish-mash of tools like WordPress to get everything under one Drupal banner. The design was done fresh, using Marvin_2k as the base (spent too damn long fighting with tables, even if there are still a couple of CSS glitches to clear up at some point in the future). Overall, nice system - although trying to track down all the little odds and sods that needed to be tweaked in the various files was a genuine killer ;-)
However, this community site is a testcase too. I try to find a way to add commerce to a community, without it become annoying or too obvious.
More specific: I try to find a way to merge the community with commercial users. Users that pay (Advertisers in a way) are treated differently, but are in essence, still users, only with more permissions and more possibilities.
I hope this new way of advertising gives some interesting ideas to others. But first of all I hope it works on this new drupal site.
-I've just launched a website, http://www.ubermondo.com, and I'd love to get your input. It's a community-driven site, and there aren't very many users yet, so there isn't a lot of content yet, but I'd still like to hear what you think.
New site for my wife who is a piano teacher. Uses Phptemplate and features lots of mp3s via filestore. I FTP'd the MP3s to the server then uploaded m3u's with filestore. I will eventually (when I'm not FTPing my pants due to stress at work) find a solution where the m3us get generated when one uploads an mp3. Simple site, and the best thing is we had it up and filled with initial content in 3 days!