I am trying out Movable Type to see how it works with the site. I had been using Drupal but wanted to create multiple sites under the elvisripley.com domain. Drupal didn’t really handle that very well. I am experimenting with Movable Type and it seems to do what I want and handle it the way that I want. I would like to keep my website files neat and tidy without a lot of junk in the root directory or any other directory where I needed to go often. Each site, elvisripley.com/b as an example, can have its own users, settings and look just like it is in independent install of Movable Type or Drupal or WordPress but it has the same log in.
I think the reason I switched from Drupal was because it could do anything you wanted but you had to set it up. I think that for usability it is still another generation away. For a large site I wouldn’t hesitate to use Drupal but for my own site ease of use was what I was most interested in. With Movable Type the only probably I had starting out was the problem of what does Movable Type think it is supposed to be? After I got a hold of that I think I got a good handle on it all. There is also a great iPhone interface for managing posts and comments, that is the kind of thing I am looking for. I don’t want loads of power if I can’t use it easily with my iPhone. Movable Type, because it is more user oriented, will be much more likely to have an iPhone app for management like Windows Live Writer.
Below is a sample of my QuickTime embed code with a nice javascript play button that should work with all templates now. I like that much more than any solution I have found so far. I used to watch Get Smart all the time.
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