Creating a site now

Hi all,

I have three whole weeks of aquaintance with Drupal, and one day's acquaintance with Drupaled. I have a site to build, for an academic programme, and am going to take the plunge and use this platform. I don't yet know much about "drupaled culture", so let me just ask a question about asking a question:

Are things at the point where it makes any sense to describe, fairly briefly, the dimensions of a project, and get feedback on how best to implement it with the Drupaled release as a starting point? Or is this the wrong time for such detail? Or the right time but the wrong forum?

Let me add that I am fairly savvy as a web programmer in other platforms (WebObjects, Seaside, Cold Fusion), but am just learning the PHP/MySQL flavor. I'm very excited about finding such a development community.

Ken Bryant
University of British Columbia