After using Movable Type for two and a half years, I finally gave up in frustration and migrated to WordPress. What a breath of fresh air. WordPress is so much simpler to install and use. I looked at both Movable Type and WordPress when I started this blog in 2005 and went with Movable Type because it had a more established name and after having struggled using Post Nuke, an open source content management system, I was leery of another open source solution.
The disadvantage with open source platforms is there are so many to choose from you are never sure which one will attract the most developer talent to support it. Case in point, there are over sixty content management systems listed in this Wikipedia article on the topic. Clearly, there is a strong development community supporting WordPress. Open source can’t solve all the world’s problems, but it certainly created an excellent piece of blogging software.
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JD, I saw your comment about ‘bloggin in silence’, and it occurred to me that I have been checking your photos for a few years now and have never stopped to Hello…
“Hello” – I like your site, but haven’t been here recently. In fact I just now discovered you had dropped the /blog. Your site has been in my blogroll on my WordPress site for a while now, so I updated it there as well.
I used to edit my pages by hand for years and years, and my brother suggested I try WordPress. It has made my life much simpler. I still use vi to edit my themes, but I’m just an old keyboard hack by nature. We share the same good taste in sunsets, and sometimes your site has inspired me to put more of my photos on-line. Thanks for that. I’ll check back more often – and invite you to drop in on SomeNet anytime. Maybe even leave a comment along the way.
Thanks for the pix & 73 /;^)
P.S. I use a plugin called “peters-custom-anti-spam-image”
for a simple spam-reduction technique… I still moderate, but now I don’t have to weed thru dozens of junk mail to figure out that I’m ‘bloggin in silence’ … /;^)
Alan, Thanks for the headsup on the plugin. Sorry for the slow response. Thanks for stopping by.