After having installed WordPress on a server all by myself for the first time, I can truly declare that it is one of the easiest possible things to work with. Not that I don’t love Movable Type, but I may just be a convert to this WordPress thing.
One of the things I especially liked about the install process was that they offered a lot of tips and advice about the different hosting services. They suggested FTP clients and text editors, and they made helpful general suggestions about how the MySQL databases on different hosts might be configured.
Another really cool thing about WordPress is that there’s no rebuilding. If you change something in the back end, it goes live immediately. I’m sure that can be both a blessing and a curse at times, but I like how fast and smooth it is to work with.
I’m sure that in time, I will find myself complaining about some facet of the software - but for the time being, I’m in the early throes of passionate infatuation.
Good lord, I’m a geek.
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Tim Jackson 06.19.06 at 4:05 pm
You’re getting me closer to making the leap myself now. Blogger has been good to me because I am technically inept. I am a geek, just a really dumb one. I’ve been clinging to Blogger out of esoteric desire to be “real” as a common blogger and because I don’t want to lose my old content and not be able to link people to it as an archive, since I have a lot of content. However, I think I am outgrowing Blogger now. WordPress seems like the way to go…
Keep us all posted as you go.
Jim Kukral 06.19.06 at 7:25 pm
Yes, welcome aboard. MT has it’s uses, but it’s really hard to argue with the simplicity and customization of WP.
Richard.H 06.20.06 at 5:42 am
Wordpress is really a cool and useful blogging platform, I have been using it for almost one year now and I love it’s powerful multi-functions and easy-to-setup features. As you using it you will discover more exciting things:)