This guide introduces concepts, strategies, and techniques that you can use to decide what you want and/or need in your Drupal site. This guide makes it easier to do things like

• identify which modules you will need and why
• determine how to organize your content to meet your needs
• define the best method for getting your content into your site
• plan how to grow and change your site over time.

Although the strategies which are covered in this guide can be used to make decisions about any kind of website (simple HTML site or a site built with a content management system), examples, insights, and tips will focus on Drupal. "The flexibility of the [Drupal] system means it's important to think through the best way to accomplish what you want before diving in"1 and that's what this guide is about.

1. 1. Comparing WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone, Idealware, March 2009 (http://www.idealware.org/comparing_os_cms/idealware_comparing_os_cms_rep...)