October 25, 2003Switching to Movable TypeAs you can see, there's a major redesign in progress, which will hopefully stabilize within a couple of weeks. Recruiting season is probably not the best time to undertake a coding challenge, but all of a sudden I couldn't stand the old look of the website. What does this mean for the weblog? Well first of all I no longer have the silly pride associated with having coded it myself. Never mind. I've done away with the 100 little obsessive systems that told me about traffic and visits and referrers and advertisers and average visit length (I guess you could say I've mellowed). I have to spend less time coding once I have it set up. I'm trying to push the design away from what Movable Type comes with, but it's not easy. I managed to create the "snippets" category to put the little things I want to refer, but don't have the time or inspiration to talk about. The colours have changed and the whole registration bullshit has gone. Feel free to let me know what you think. Oh yes - one more thing - I lost all the comments during the transfer, which is annoying, but no great loss. Posted by nlvp at October 25, 2003 12:54 PMComments
Everybody and their grandchild seems to be switching to MT. Is it really worth it? Posted by: Dorna! at November 3, 2003 05:35 PMIt is easier to manage - it comes with a nice interface, it updates smoothly, it's benefited from lots of testing, and there's a large number of people who can help fix problems (in fact, I've found nothing that can't be fixed with a google search). I was maintaining my own system before, with a MySQL server and my own PHP code, and while it worked, there's so much more design effort that's gone into MT that it's just nicer. I don't get the pride I used to from managing the system, but it's just better. Posted by: nlvp at November 3, 2003 05:50 PMPost a comment
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