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[element]

so with my host change I can finally setup a blog, which should make updating my site a little easier.

now comes the quest to find the best blog software, so far I have looked into:
b2Evolution - looks good
MovableType - looks really good
BLOG:CMS - looks ok

has anyone used any of these? what did you like? installation difficulties?

COMMENTS!!

 

[xsarien]

Moveable Type is decent enough, I wish it were a little more flexible, and the default stylesheet is not so much convoluted as it is tied very tightly to the overall design. If you want something drastically different, you're much better off writing your own.

Also, I'm not sure if they're even supporting the free version anymore. Go to their website and check it out.

 

[Mason]

Moveable Type looked the most appealing to me, but it was a complete mess to customize from what I could tell.

 

[Semjaza Azazel]

I am VERY happy with Movable Type. I've been using it for around two years now. I've also used Coranto, Grey Matter, B2, Blogger, PMachine, Nuke and several others. MT is still my favorite.

I personally have played around with the templates completely. The default output templates are far different from what can actually be accomplished... plus the forums are helpful and there are honestly a shitload of plug-ins for it.

Like with any decent blogging tool, you have to learn its coding system. I find MT's very simple and I've had no problem getting it to do what I want with a bit of work. If you are decent at HTML, you'll be fine after a bit of messing around.

It does have some flaws... most of which aren't too obvious to a general user (which I feel I fit into). One of the more annoying ones is that it likes to tell you to rebuild the entire site when you don't necessarily have to (which can be a pain with certain servers, leading to 500 errors)... but you can just pick the page or area you want to do.

Anyway, if any general help is needed with MT, I'd be glad to do what I can.

 

[element]

thanks for the help guys.

 

[Gantz]

Don't you have to pay for Moveble Type now? I prefer wordpress.

 

[carpal]

Textpattern!

 

[RedDwarf]

I've used Blogger, Greymatter, Movabletype and am now happily using Wordpress. Easy install, no rebuilding times (big problem for me with MT due to the number of posts I have) and some great plugins from the open source community.

 

[jenov4]

For anyone who wants to use a "standalone" blogger (no PHP, MySQL, webhost) needed, I suggest you check out "Blog 8.0" It's a bit limited, but it does everything I need to, and it has the ability to publish your blog for you as long as you have FTP access to your website. No database required.

The page is here: http://farook.org/

BTW, this is for Windows.

 

[RevenantKioku]

If you know anything about coding, ASP and PHP are easy enough to do your own. I did. and I was infinitely happy.
Of course later when I moved to my friends webspace he wrote his own, better one for me, but its all good.

 

[element]

If you know anything about coding, ASP and PHP are easy enough to do your own. I did. and I was infinitely happy.
Of course later when I moved to my friends webspace he wrote his own, better one for me, but its all good.

I'm to lazy.

 

[NetMapel]

I like my PMachine

 

[element]

so i installed wordpress, which i have found to be nice, but somewhat buggy. Like I try to login and it wont let me.

Also I am using iPAP for quick gallerys of my photos. one problem with iPAP is that files are stored in the same location and it won't rename them. So i have to rename all my files, which is pretty easy with photoshop. Another problem is 8 single file for upload, which will such with some of my galleries have 150 photos

anyone know a good PHP gallery script?