Attached as I was to Blogger, the “market leader” of self-publishing weblog software, I have been looking for a way to divide my weblog into categories and allow people to view only those categories that interest them.
Moveable Type, which I am now using, allows this and contains a number of other useful facilities as well. I highly recommend it.
I owe a debt of thanks to my friend Reid Ellis who hosts the site and who has helped a great deal in making the switch-over a smooth one. Do let me know if you like the new look and new capabilities – I call your attention to the “comment” feature just below.
I also encourage you to join my mailing list (at right) – another feature made easier by Moveable Type. This won’t email you every time a new entry is posted but it will allow me to notify you when I add something that I consider particularly interesting.
LiveJournal is still the One True Way. 🙂 It’s just lacking a few features, is all. The way Movable Type requires you to “build” all your files is tedious and error-prone. Debbie has had a few problems with it. I’ll be interested to hear how you do with it.
LiveJournal is a live view of your entered text with a style applied to it as you view it. This puts a slightly higher load on the server, but it also allows you more power.
Comment by Reid Ellis — 21 February 2002 @ 5:50 am
Excited as I am about continuously improving my website, I have only just got this working as I want it so I will likely stick with MT for now. Why didn’t you say this earlier? 😉
Comment by David — 21 February 2002 @ 9:55 am
Well, until those new features are there, you are better with Movable Type I think. Debbie is in the same boat. The LiveJournal team is focussed on supporting their site these days, which means they are worrying about scalability and performace instead of new features, so I think I will have to write the new features myself before they will be available!
So until that time, Movable Type is cool. 🙂
Comment by Reid Ellis — 21 February 2002 @ 3:36 pm