There's a paradigm shift that I'm having a tough time embracing here with Drupal: It's a Content Management System and not a Publishing Platform. The notion of a CMS is new to someone who has only thought of website design, per se. But if you really take a step back and evaluate all the different content that goes into a website, and think of it as one large dynamic database, that's rendered in a style that you deem best fit, you can sort of grasp the difference between a CMS and a publishing platform like Blogger, for instance.
I was looking online for basic screencasts to get a feel for how people erect their average Drupal 6 site and came across this series tutorial instead
That link is part 5 in the longer series, but if you have Drupal and WAMP already installed, that's about where it get's interesting. The tutorial really highlighted the function of modules in Drupal for me. Modules are truly where the magic is! Once you get the concept of searching for modules to enable a function in Drupal (similar to Plugins in Wordpress), then you realize that the options are limitless and there is HUGE potential with this CMS thing! The same author explains the CMS concept in this article: http://codingpad.maryspad.com/2008/03/01/kings-among-content-management-systems/
And lastly, I was looking for great examples of what Drupal can do, and am again reminded of how great the Drupal community is by the Drupal Shocase forum here: http://drupal.org/forum/25
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