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The blog of website you mentioned uses Wordpress and it doesn't use Drupal. I don't know if you want to make it using Drupal or you want something like this? If you want to use Drupal, you should make the theme yourself using theme frameworks or any other way you like or hire a designer to design it for you. And if you want to use Wordpress, you should purchase the theme or hire a designer to design it for you. Anyway, the website you said, uses Wordpress not Drupal.

I would recommend going with Wordpress when it comes to blogging. To get started easily you can use the hosted option at http://wordpress.com or DIY at http://wordpress.org.

Drupal can handle your blog just fine. Sure, Drupal has the power and flexibility to do lots more than blogs but, but it's better to have the power and not need it, than to need it and not have it.

If you want to attach a blog to your current website, I would highly recommend Drupal. If you don't do Drupal now, you will most likely do it later.

Generally, the basic steps are:

1. Set up a subdomain (i.e. , www.aplacetorent.ie/blog) under your existing website that points to your blog site
2. Install and set up a Drupal site in a subfolder under your existing website
3. Install some basic modules (Views, CTools, Wysiwyg, Token, Pathauto, etc) + for a blog I recommend installing the tagadelic module)
4. Choose a theme (color scheme and layout) for your blog
5. Configure your content types and permissions
6. Decide What You Want To Blog About
7. Optionally, add blogging freebies like buttons, images, blog chalks, imoods, tagboards (for example, myshoutbox.com), guest maps, guestbooks, comment boxes for readers' input, etc.
8. Decide whether you want your blog to be private or public: do you want any Internet visitor to be able to read your blog, or do you just want your friends and family to be able to read it? Drupal, like most blog sites offer the ability to password-protect your published posts so only those who you approve of can view what you've written.
9. Decide if you want others to be able to post blogs on your blog site or, just you. If you want a mult-person blog, Drupal offers a blog modules that works pretty good. If you are the only blogger than, no need for the blog module.
10. Decide what other features/functions you want on your blog.
11. After you've set up your blog, write a few posts to test it out, and make any adjustments to the layout or style that you see fit.
12. Establish a menu link to your blog on your existing website menu