Lhmdesign has an excellent write-up on how the website was redesigned with Drupal with great tips for bloggers using Drupal. A couple of tips I found extremely useful:
drupal
In the first part, we learned to setup comments, categories, and the basics for blogging with Drupal. Now we install the modules that make Drupal a powerful blogging tool.
Extra Modules for Blogging Nirvana
URL: http://< path to drupal website >/?q=admin/build/modules
Drupal's powers become manifold with its diverse modules. For blogging, these are the most important ones:
Drupal is a Content Management System - which means blogging is just a small cog of the big wheel of Drupal. This does make Drupal harder to use for blogging (as compared to Wordpress), but with these modules and settings Drupal can be a very good blog workhorse. In fact, it runs this blog too!
Install Drupal
Download and set up Drupal 5.0 while following the installation instructions.
Change Settings
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