TCH-Sales Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Since the world of blogging has become so popular lately, I figured I would start a post asking people what their favorite blogging engine is and why? MovableType? P-Machine? BBlog? Let us know what you think! Thumbs Up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lerdo Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 Great question. I looked at Movable Type, Greymatter, and some others, but I finally settled on Nucleus. I couldn't be happier with my choice; it was relatively easy to install and customize, even though I have little knowledge of mySQL. Nucleus also has great forums for support, development, plugins, etc. All in all, a terrific product, and I'm thrilled to be supporting a lesser known but top quality engine. L. Digital Emissions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kavinay Posted November 3, 2003 Share Posted November 3, 2003 I use Movable Type, mostly because of its template system and support of standards such as RSS and XMLRPC. There is something very satisfying about setting things up exactly like you want them and then, by merely writing an entry, watching the building or updating of all your blog components being taken care of by MT's engine (albeit the level of customizabilty means I'm always tinkering with a new tip or plugin and enjoying the backend design as much as blogging itself). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakes Posted November 3, 2003 Share Posted November 3, 2003 used to use blogger ... still good as it was one of the first good ones... but now i use movable type. i switched because i wanted something that was hosted on my own server. mt rocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarqFlare Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 I'm thinking about starting a blog... I have an old personalized website I custom-built for myself, but maybe a blog would be a better way for me to go... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayners Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 I think everybody knows where my preference lies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deverill Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 Hey Darq, I was the same a week ago... wondering about going with a blog. I wanted somewhere I could chronicle my writing adventures. I saw this thread and went out and grabbed Movable Type and it's great. It was easy to follow their instructions to install and it's easy to use. I'm going to be looking at customizing it as I get time but it was pleasantly easy to get started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xGrendel Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 MT all the way baby! I've tried several different concepts for doing a personal page, but MT is, by far, one of the easiest to plug-in and go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Rob Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 I may need to get a new account so I can try the blogging thing out. Of course I will need to have David give me a hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Dick Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 I started a blog last night, it is all of you ppls fault I will have even LESS free time now I used MT by the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 LOL Mike, sleep is highly over rated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarqFlare Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 Yeah, I've gone MT as well! I'm just gonna write up my own template structure though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Rob Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Ok, I did it. I got a new hosting account for my reservoirblogs.com name. Now I need to learn CSS so I can modify the templates as the ones that are on the MT home page aren't working right with my site. Thanks guys, now I have even less time to do things with the family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarqFlare Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Is it just me, or are there not enough premade CSS styles for MT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Rob Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Agreed Darq, I was hoping for a bit more than what MT offers but I havent looked at places like Blog Styles or the like yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarqFlare Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 http://www.movablestyle.com/ -> The only one I found. I took their grey and modified it to a color scheme I wanted. I've also putzed around with other display things on the templates, slowly getting DarqSite to where I want it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bladestorm.net Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 I haven't tried any of the other sites/management services besides Blogger. I host it on my own site, and merely use Blogger to update/post onto my blog. It works out quite well because you don't have to have it on your the Blogger server if you have sufficient space to host it yourself. Plus, now that Goodle purchased Blogger, all of the once "paid" features are now included with your sign up to use their service. Blogger all the way! http://www.blogger.com/ -Sean- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caffeine Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 I used to be on Pmachine and it was pretty cool but I didn't like the limitations in the free version. Now i'm with MT and really glad to be using it because of its multitude of lovely plugins as well as the ability to have multiple blogs. speaking of which, I found totalchoice hosting through david's site when i was looking for more MT plugins, and well, I eventually switched hosts! Blogger's easy but it's lacking many features - especially permalinks and title fields. it'd be good for people without webspace - but why anybody should use blogger when they have alternatives, is quite puzzling! (the blogger to MT import function works easily, if you ever think of switching!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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