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I'd be interested - particularly to any database or theme tweaking, customization, or editing kinds of things.

I'm really starting to keep my eye open for a mysql to postgresql or MariaDB porting as well.

Drupal is overkill for a blog, believe me. It's highly tailored and definitely suited for a customized community platform and even then the learning curve really does not justify the end results.

I've tried it out several times and it always seems to defeat the purpose of what I'm trying to achieve.

Sometimes I think the best CMS is the one you tailor make to your own situation.

@Hari: Feature-wise, I'd agree it's overkill. It's actually smaller than b2evolution tho. The learning curve is irrelevant - I need to be able to build & theme Drupal sites whether I'm blogging with it or not.

I'm starting to hit more and more limits that are causing me problems with b2 - short of hacking it to the point that future upgrades would be a major pain, there's no way around this. So I need to move to SOMETHING else.

I also want to unify my site (which is currently a lot of static HTML with a couple of blogs and various other untidy things) as well as expand it significantly in a few months' time. A full CMS instead of a blogging platform would make life a LOT easier.

And I can't face the hassle of sitting down and trying to build a quality CMS of my own when I could just use an existing open-source one.

So shunting the entire site to Drupal would actually make a lot of sense - the blog would be the main headache, but there's more to the website than the blog, there will be even more in future, and as I need to learn the ins and outs of Drupal anyway, there's no real downside.

My point was that Drupal has too many "community" features that get in the way of creating a nice personal website.

My personal solution to the same problem was what resulted in harishankar.org of the present. I simply split the sections which I wanted to and gave it an overall similar looking style.

1. The reviews section is static HTML generated from a python script I wrote myself.
2. The blog is a custom solution I wrote in PHP.
3. Other pages are PHP but mostly static content.

I think overall my decision not the integrate at the software level was a good one. I would probably have got similar results with Drupal but then I don't need its complexity and keeping distinct apps separate (the Unix way) made a lot of sense to me.

One word... Wordpress!

P.S> If you do do it, can you switch the order of your prev/next links at the top of individual posts. I was clicking through thinking "I've read these before", and realised that "next post" is where previous post should be and vice versa...

I've used Wordpress for blogging before. In fact, my private blog is run on WP. But I'm not a big enough fan of it to want to migrate my whole site across, I'm afraid.

I'll see what I can do about the links :o)

Would love to see some, as i just love to read others notes before i chose a way to d something