When I brought the site over to Drupal I initially concentrated on duplicating the look and feel of my original site. In order to accomplish this I ended up creating a new Drupal theme from scratch based on the original XHTML and CSS code. I then went and added content, duplicating the original structure of the site. I made heavy use of the Path module and enabled URL re-writing in order to keep the page addresses consistent with their static versions. This is important for search engine visibility.

I took great advantage of the modular nature of Drupal and added contributed modules to give me functionality as I needed it. Here is what I added so far and why: