Got the blog imported and working.
What a joy WordPress is in comparison to Movable Type!!! I’m a fairly intelligent person, not a tech or web genius, but I can get my head around most things designed for normal mortals – well ok, except flash, and CSS position markers give me a headache. But MT is so badly, clunkily designed and the documentation is as dense as a doctoral thesis! I’d tried for about 4 days last week to make the migration to foundobjectsgallery.com with MT but gave up. Hence my joy with how easy the install and setup of WP went.
I’ve listed my reasons for shifting blog location in the last post on the old blog
I’m quite happy with the new look although I miss the red banner bg – I may put that back. I was also really happy to find out whilst googling around, that #808080 is 50% grey, so I’ve now got a totally neutral bg to present pics. I’ll probably be playing when, and if, I have time.
Update.
Ok I put the red banner back. Next problem is it looks ok in Firefox but in IE the header text has an underline – now where the bugger is that coming from…
Update 2.
Ok got that sorted. Never forget that a clickable title also takes the css attributes of a link – write out 100x
Hi, I work with the MT team and am sorry you weren’t having a good experience. Just out of curiosity, did you try updating to the new version 4.0 of Movable Type? I’m curious to see what your opinion of what that version would be, since it’s been completely redesigned. (See http://movabletype.org/)
Agghh, lesson 1 never criticise anything in a blog!
My IP is hosted by pair and they offered my MT 3 (??) , as 4 was in beta.
I found it totally obtuse, nothing worked with anything else, and I might have stayed with it IF I’d have been able to import my wordpress blog.
As I already have the old blog hosted at WordPress, I eventually realised it would be easier to make the slight change from the hosted frontend to installing wordpress on my IP’s site.
I also find the docs and tutorials in WordPress much more accessable. I’m having a few small problems, but it is mainly plain sailng.
I understand that 4 is a redesign but didn’t want to install a beta.
I think very often these things come down to which approach in the GUI and the online help suits your style of learning, and WordPress did it for me. I have no doubt that MT4 is a fine product, it just wasn’t there at the time for me