Got an email from a friend who is thinking of starting a blog. He has some reservations about it, and also asked about Movable Type. Here is my reply:
Blogs are good for some things – diaries, opinions, short articles. What they are particularly bad at is letting you develop a piece of writing over a period of time. That said, I am sure you will enjoy blogging, and I’m equally sure I’ll enjoy reading it.
Moveable Type is OK. From what I understand, it represents the state of the art for pure server-side blogware. ‘tis lightweight and easy to set up in a wide range of environments.
Installation was simple once I wrapped my head around how MT works: it stores all the information in the database, but when you publish, it generates flat html files into your www directory. phpwebhosting have all the tools you need (actually, just perl) to make it work.
The only problem I have ever had with it is corruption in the BerkelyDB database. I lost 80% of my blogs comments. I have since moved to the MySQL backend and have had no further issues.
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Finicky, but it's spelt "Movable Type"
Good point. I'll change it.
indeed he changed it ;-)
but not in the post itself. btw, my name is henning too.
nice site.
Hey Lars, give me a break - it was over a year ago.