There is a thread going over at Drupal.org about the best way to use Drupal for a brochure style site.

Dries makes the comment that a needed change is the ability to, per-node, limit the inclusion of author and date posted information. I agree in part. It would be good and likely would be good in Drupal 4.7 which has much better dynamic hiding and showing of parts of the authoring screen. One of the common complaints I get from users is that the screen for authoring posts, especially if a user has many privileges is that the authoring page gets confusing.