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I’ve had it with Movable Type
Warning: geeky programming content follows!
This blog started on Blogger, then moved to Movable Type, and now, with the release of MT4, it’s time to move again. I’ve had it with Movable Type. In this day and age of visual communcaition, Movable Type persists in being the most complex and user-unfriendly content management system I have yet to come across. It may be venerable, it may be powerful, but the company can’t seem to get a decent set of tutorials together, leaving 90% designer/10% programmer types like me floundering in an ocean of wikis, messy documentation, and articles that assume so much knowledge on the part of the reader that it’s virtually impossible to get anywhere.
In start contrast, there’s Expression Engine. I’ve only just started going through the tutorials and already it’s starting to make perfect sense.
Take note companies—if you’re trying to sell to the public, then you have to put as much effort into communicating to them how to use the product as you put into your product itself. MT may be the best content management system in the world, but if I can’t find clear, easy-to-understand documentation on how to use it, how will I ever know?
Things may get a little messy round here as I change it all around to the new system. Bear with me readers!
New Masthead. Geddit?
Ships—pirates—masts! Brilliant!
A revamp to the masthead to brighten up the front page a little. Bought a great Dover clip book/CD-ROM of pirate imagery and this wonderful illustration by Howard Pyle (1853-1911), an American illustrator, just cried out to introduce my site—“So the Treasure Was Divided”, 1905, Harper’s Monthly.
Yeah, I know the quote is from Ben Hur. Somehow it all works for me.
Ahhh-choo!
Hmm, it’s getting a bit dusty around here. Looks like I’ve been working too hard again and neglecting the place. I must get the cleaners in.
Oh, by the way, sorry the comment links have disappeared off the Diversion posts. Some bizarre technical glitch I haven’t been able to fix yet. I’ll get them back as soon as I can. In the meantime, if you really have something important to say about a Diversions link, click the Archives button at the end of the list. Thanks.
Sorry for the Silence …
Still here folks, just moved into our new house/studio, unpacking boxes, getting the ADSL up and running, shifting large heavy objects … back soon!
Get diverted—then talk about it
A friend of mine has always wanted me to add the ability to make comments on items in my Diversions list—well Mr Miller, I had an idle moment late at night and now you have your wish. Bear with me while I fine tune the templates that go with this deceptively complex addition to the Hollow. No doubt I have now opened the floodgates to spam galore!
PS Click the little little number link to view or add comments.
PPS By the way, this is as good a place as any to reveal there’s little personal effort involved in snaring these online diversionary nuggets. They’re supplied by friends, stolen from blogs often more interesting than mine (eg Boing Boing) and occasionally stumbled upon by yours truly. But you knew that, didn’t you?
