WordPress to Drupal - Prologue

Now that I've said what I'm going to do (migrate my blog and web site from WordPress to Drupal), I probably ought to say how I'm going to go about doing it.

My plan is:

1. Get and install Drupal on an internal workstation and start playing with it. The "get and install" parts of this were done about a week ago. The playing with it will probably continue indefinitely.
2. I decided to go with the book Building powerful and robust web sites with Drupal 6. I like tree-ware when I'm learning something since I can make notes, read when I'm not at the computer, etc.
3. Mess around with Drupal on my internal workstation until I have at least an idea of how to move both my blog and my web site to Drupal. Another criteria is to get through the chapter of the book titled "Access Control" since I want the in-progress and final site to be secure. I'm currently working through Chapter 3 and that's Chapter 5 so don't hold your breath.
4. Once I feel comfortable that I can control access to the development site I'll make the current version available as a link from this blog.
5. Continue moving content and working out how I want the combined blog/web site to look and function.
6. At some point I'll post a (hopefully) final WordPress posting and move completely to the new site/blog. Depending on how well I'm able to migrate the existing content, comments, etc., I may leave the blog available as a standalone entity for a while. It will go away when maintaining the two capabilities becomes tiresome.

I'm tentatively planning to go with the Giordani theme and use the Drupal "forum" functionality for my various blogging subjects. This could change but I like the way it looks so far.

As always, questions, comments or suggestions are welcome.

Cheers,
Dave