25 May 2004
moving up in the web
Don’t get me wrong. Movable Type is a great piece of software, and I’ve enjoyed using it. There are a lot of sites moving away from MT as of late, but their reasons and mine are largely different. Most of them will point out their unwillingness to pay the high license fees Six Apart’s charging (i.e. anything more than free) and the continued close source status of the popular blogging software, but those don’t really bother me. Its lack of custom fields and relative lack of control over comments faze me not.
No, what bothers me about MT and what’s prompting my eventual complete switch to WordPress is MT’s interface. It uses so many buttons, and every one of them an image. With those images come loading times, and extra requests littering my logs. Therein lies my beef with Six Apart; all I want is a clean logfile.
So anyway, I’ve been using Movable type for things other than these entries. I also ran /ketchup, a links blog of sorts meant to consolidate the ten years and hundreds of kilobytes I’ve devoted to bookmarking, “adding to favorites” and hotlisting sites of interest. It was my hope that I’d add a paragraph or two about one of them every day (then, having lapsed badly, every weekday). I made it, fitfully at times, through some seventy or so before stopping altogether. From last fall or so it sat largely dormant, save for the occasional added draft entry and the more-than-occasional spam comment (and a real one or two!) here and there. Until this week.
Today I transitioned it over to WordPress. I’ll sporadically add more interesting links, but at least now I have a clean interface through which to do so.
Oh, and it was a dry run for this. By 2005 I’ll have converted it over, too.