Drupal Resources

 This article provides an excellent comparison and overview of starter (base) themes from which you can customise your own themes.

http://www.chapterthree.com/blog/squiggy_rubio/reviewing_drupal_starter_...

This is a great article on tuning Drupal for performance following Yahoo's Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site. It takes you through each rule and shows which ones are covered in Drupal and, when they're not, how to find a work-around.

Traditionally, the way to improve the performance of a Drupal site is to enable the page-level cache. While this may work well with a site that only has anonymous users, it will not be used at all for authenticated users. Drupal just can't tell whether the page contains sensitive or personalised content that should not be shared between users.

This video gives a good step by step overview of creating a Drupal content sharing site using the Views, Panels and CCK modules. 

Here's a great 1hr overview of Drupal given by Lullabot to Google back in 2007. Double most of the statistics referred to for a more current snapshot. 

This excellent comparison shows Drupal to be consistently faster than Joomla - up to 4 times faster when caching is enabled. View the full report at http://www.alldrupalthemes.com/blog/joomla-15-drupal-61-performance-comparison.html

The Drupal Association today announced that Drupal has won two prestigious Packt Publishing 2008 Open Source CMS Awards this week - the Overall 2008 Open Source CMS Award and the Best PHP Open Source CMS.