Just installed Drupal 7 this evening which looks WAY slicker than when I last did anything on my site. Still got a few little problems to do with the quirky way in which I install and manage the files on my host public_html/drupal folder rather than everything in root. Whilst this worked like a treat with Drupal 6 it appears they've made some little tweaks to 7 and not everything works as expected - it appears that there are some errors with the AJAX which I suspect is down to my ReWrite rules.
Other things to note about the D7 is that it has a much better admin interface, extensive use of AJAX which we started to see in 5 and 6 along with an all new menu bar for administration. It is also much easier to download and install modules and themes which is all controlled through the admin interface. This means it is possible to have a completely user front end configuration of a Drupal site which I was very impressed with.
Hopefully I'll get the remaining issues sorted out over the next few days and jot down a few more useful points that I've found.
P.S if anyone wants the details on how to configure Drupal 7 to work in a sub folder but appear in the root domain then its covered in the Drupal support forums.
PPS Here's my .htaccess rules for anyone thats interested.
RewriteEngine on# Only apply to URLs on this domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?oliverclarke\.co\.uk$### Drupal Settings ###
# Only apply to URLs that aren't already under folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/drupal/# Don't apply to URLs that go to existing files or folders.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d# Rewrite all those to insert /folder.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /drupal/$1# Also redirect the root folder.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?oliverclarke\.co\.uk$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ drupal/index.php [L]
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