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I'd like to hear why folks prefer Wordpress...I use Typepad for Altgate.com and I have to say that I'm not terribly impressed. I also use Blogger for a company blog (virid.us/blog/) and it's fine. On a related note, has anyone done a Typepad-->Wordpress conversion? How'd it go?
I had my WP blog compromised by a security flaw and then listed as a spam site by Google, meaning that anyone who came there in Firefox (which is most of my readers) got a warning rather than my homepage. Never had that happen with MT.
I also had an article take off on StumbleUpon and let's just say Wordpress doesn't handle traffic well. I later tried tossing in the most popular caching plug-in, but it borked my RSS feed such that Feedburner wouldn't recognize it.
Long story short, the last 6 months of WP have been nothing but headache after headache for me. I write all of my posts in Word and then publish via xml-rpc, so I don't care much about the interface, but I think MT's and WP's are pretty comparable.
So yeah, though a year ago I was considering converting my older blog to WP, now I'd vote for MT. (Haven't used TypePad in years, so I can't tell you about that one specifically.)
It's great for a beginning blogger. It's dead simple blogs by email, and it's the easiest way to post a ton of photos or video straight from your digital camera.
Wordpress or Chryp if you want something lighter. But Wordpress all the way.
On the other hand, if you really want to run a successful blog, register your own domain and install...well, you will not go wrong with Wordpress.
How serious are you about your intention? My suggestion is, that if you want to just try it out, register instantly on wordpress.com or blogger.com and try to run it for a few weeks. The thing is, that maintaining you own installation at your own domain takes quite a lot of time. On the other hand, if you really want to run a successful blog, register your own domain and install...well, you will not go wrong with Wor…
Not sure I agree with this, at least where WordPress is concerned. What, after all, is involved? Grabbing the source from the latest stable branch on the WP svn repository takes less than a minute. Creating a new database is a few seconds; adding the database details to the config file is less than a minute; and the install routine can also be run in under a minute. That's installation. Then there's maintenance: a cron job that updates the source from svn every night, and a one-line svn command to switch to a new branch when it comes out. A database backup script which, like the domain configuration, is not WordPress-specific.
Actually, having gone halfway through this response, I'm not sure I agree with my disagreement. Once you've sorted all of the above, you need to start doing things specific to your installation: choosing or creating a theme, installing plugins (preferably over svn from the WP plugin repository so you can update them automatically), and tweaking the various settings to your liking. But only the details are specific to WordPress, or Movable Type.
It would be more accurate to say that maintaining any reasonably complex website takes quite a lot of time. But then, we knew that already, and it still only takes five minutes to get WordPress installed on your server.
Squarespace obviously. http://www.squarespace.com/ Go ahead and try to do this in either of the others: http://www.squarespace.com/squarespaced
We'd love for you to try posterous.com -- it's a YC 2008 company and we're growing fast. It's great for a beginning blogger. It's dead simple blogs by email, and it's the easiest way to post a ton of photos or video straight from your digital camera.
Had a look and I'm very impressed!
I'm putting together a personal blog and thought it'd be a good idea to do the posts by email - was a bit unsure on the anti spoofing measures though. I'm sure you have it sorted!
I've recommended it to a friend already- Well done!