There are a heap of blogging tools, and a heap of tutorials that will tell you how to make your own blogging tool (a task often used as a web framework “Hello World” project). In the past, I’ve written my own, used WordPress and MovableType. Each of these have been good and bad but something has kept me looking elsewhere. The most frustrating things I’ve found with WordPress is the lack of native support for multiple blogs (the WordPress MU extension claims to do it but I couldn’t get it to work), and migration problems if you have to shift hosting providers (good luck if you want to change the table prefix, it’s not easy).

Anyway, I recently heard about the Drupal Podcast and decided to download an episode and listen to it. It got me fired up to want to install Drupal for my blog and get some experience with it, but before I took that step I had a few questions:

1. I need to migrate my post from Blogger.
2. I want to keep the metadata and comments.
3. I want to retain the URL’s to the individual posts.
4. I want it to look pretty much the same, but not at the expense of functionality.

So, four simple requirements but I suspect I’m about to bite off a big chunk. Over the next little while I hope to document my progress here, and bitch about problems on the way, or even fix them and offer advice for others wanting to do the same. Buckle up!