Migration patterns
May 24th, 2004 byI’ve been an avid user of MovableType for over 2 years now and have loved every minute of it. This amazing publishing tool has done what Blogger stopped doing for me. It actually made my writing feel welcomed in its little grey text boxes. For me, that is important. It had these little messages which you could customize for greeting purposes. I ran my personal and profesionnal writings on this baby. Because my baby treated me well and in turn, I treated my baby well. Face it, our blogs mean this to much us.
I was in TypePad’s beta testing team and I was an eager tester for their new version 3.0 as well but wasn’t picked. They had millions of eager testers possibly. Over a week ago, they finally released their new edition but with nothing less then an accidental stab to many loyal users. For they switched to a paid edition; their free version carries a tiny tiny usage possible (1 user, 3 blogs max and I’m already past that).
Across the globe, thousands of users mourned the loss of a loyal friend, of a toy their baby loved feverishly and prayed in silence.
Anyways, the time has come to on. Fortunately, an open source project by the name of WordPress shows great promise, with add-ons that I was desperately needing, such as better comment management, greater control of administration, RSS feeds, XHTML compliance and yes, PhotoLog add-ons.
With a new simpler layout, a firmer control of comment spamming and much more in actual development, I’ve decided to push up HPNv2.0 release and slowly implement add-ons as time truthfully trickles.
Go on. Say it with me: Insha-allah.
May 24th, 2004 at 12:44 am
(when in doubt)… WHOOO HAAA!
May 24th, 2004 at 1:45 am
InshaAllah.
I’m all for changing one’s blog around. About every week in fact. :p
May 24th, 2004 at 1:10 pm
*holds back* lol.
May 26th, 2004 at 2:31 am
Assalamu Alaykum Waleed.
I havent been here for ages, hope your well inshAllah
YAY photlog ad ons!!!!!!!!!!!!
InshAllah. I can’t wait to see HPNv2.0 I’m sure you’ve changed it more though?
I’m off to read what I’ve missed out on since I’ve been gone.
Oh I’m doing a web applications thing as part of my degree, all this RSS and XHTML will make sense soon
Masalama!!!!!!
Jaded
May 26th, 2004 at 9:48 pm
Insha-Allah… lol..
Blogger doesn’t make me feel welcome.. In fact it gives me this glare and refuses to post half the time. “Come on, you can’t think of posting THAT! Have some class, man…”
But as long as it does my work without me getting my fingers dirty in programming… it’s all good.
May 27th, 2004 at 12:41 pm
“and if your world should fall apart.. ”
..go to WordPress! =)
Can’t wait to see hPNv2.0 Waleed.
May 31st, 2004 at 8:11 am
I keep hearing about Movable Type. Perhaps it is time that I venture further into the blogging world.
June 1st, 2004 at 2:01 pm
Does “simpler layout” mean the gray cell layout is coming back? I was kinda fond of that one, actually.
June 10th, 2004 at 6:04 am
Looks really good. I personally moved to Expression Engine recently and have been putting a few hours every weekend to get the new templates to work better. I have’nt used WordPress, but am loving the features and speed of Expression Engine.
Guess its goodbye for the time being Movable Type… hope we meet again some day…