Drupal is a very flexible CMS which can be extended to provide the functionality needed for may different types of website.

I've worked on a few projects where I was brought in for my Drupal expertise, but in the end felt that Drupal wasn't a good solution in these particular circumstances. So I've been pondering what sorts of projects is Drupal best suited to.

I've been using Drupal for a couple of years now, and know my way around it pretty well.

One of my biggest frustrations though is that it doesn't really have an API.

Much of the functionality is only really available through the application, you can do things pretty easily by pointing and clicking, but try and automate part of this and you have to step through code, find form handlers, copy-paste parts of the functions and work out what parameters are required.

The example I found most recently was creating a translated version of a page.