Over the past two or three weeks, I have been helping one of my buddies trying to get his blog up and running.

It was quite an ambitious project that he wanted to do. He is an artist who creates his own music, covers famous songs, etc.

His blog had to be able to do the following:

• Blog entries
• Youtube-linked videos
• Uploadable MP3's with on-site Flash Audio player.
• Twitter integration - Showing Recent tweets

It was quite a list, but I knew I could rely on my favourite CMS to do the job.

We started building an off-line Drupal website on a local webserver we had at the office, tweaking all the modules, getting the theme just right.

This week we got the site online. Yes, there are still a few sections missing, but I think we are getting there. It's up to him to get content going now.

The past few weeks have taught me a lot about the Drupal system. I've learned how to override core module output, learned some advanced theming, even did some module hacking to make it do what I want it to do.

All in all, a good week. Now to take this information and start building on the design that I have planned for Geekworld's relaunch.

I cannot wait.

Of course, it would be rude of me not to link my friend's new site.

Go visit his site at rivaanbechan.com. It's a bit sparse at the moment, but keep an eye out for him, I'm sure the young man will become quite an online celebrity soon.