Macromedia has a tutorial posted over on their Dreamweaver Developer Center about creating your own blog with Dreamweaver, PHP, and MySQL.

Short for weblog, a blog is a personal journal that is frequently updated and intended for public consumption. It is a convenient way to make your ideas and opinions known or to publish more formal articles on specific topics, and to develop commentaries around them. If I caught your attention, then this tutorial will help you set up a basic blog from scratch, with absolutely no manual programming whatsoever.

This article is the first of a series of six tutorials that will guide you through building a complex blog using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 within the PHP MySQL development environment. You can build this blog on either a Windows/IIS, Mac/Apache, or Linux/Apache development platform.

They don't help you (directly) set up the LAMP platform to build your blog on, but they do provide everything else, including some source files to get you started. Once you have Dreamweaver configured for your new server, they show you how to create the simple database and start in with your Dreamweaver templates. They go all the way through working with CSS in this part, but they also have other parts posted as well:

• Part 2: Creating an Administration Section
• Part 3: Creating a Search Feature and Archiving Your Blog
• Part 4: Building User Account Management Functionality
• Part 5: Managing User Accounts and Comments
• Part 6: Replacing Text Areas with Rich Text Editors

It's good to see that even Macromedia would like to support the bloggers out there that want something a bit more than Blogger (or the like) has to offer or don't want to futz with the many blog apps out there just to have a simple place to share thoughts...