I’ve been working over the past few days to design a WordPress Theme based upon a really beautiful Movable Type template. But the transfer of the CSS and related information has been neither easy nor simple.
In Publish and Prosper Steve and Byron write about how you need to be very careful when selecting a platform, because moving information between platforms is a pain in the tuchus. This goes almost doubly for the transfer of a site’s look and feel.
We’ll be talking about selecting the right platform for your needs the first time at our upcoming Blog Business Summit conference.
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Wendy Piersall 08.28.06 at 7:22 am
Teresa, sadly this is too true - and most people don’t realize it until they have already established a blog (as in: Me!). I had to move a blog from Nucleus to Wordpress… what an ordeal! I try to tell people now to 1-Just go with Wordpress and 2-Move to Wordpress now if you aren’t! The longer you delay your move, the harder it will be to migrate your blog, and you risk losing more readers due to changed URLs. Glad to see the discussion on your site!
Teresa Valdez Klein 08.29.06 at 9:13 am
Wendy: The URL change issue is one of the reasons we recommend that business bloggers use services they host themselves. TypePad and hosted Wordpress are both fantastic services if you need something easy and fast, but you lose a lot of control by working with a service that someone else hosts.