Blogger
For the longest time I’ve been telling people to use Typepad instead of Blogger, because Blogger didn’t seem to get it. Well, now they do. All those features: single page posts with permalinks, comments, XML feeds, etc. have all been very nicely introduced into the new version of Blogger. I hope all the older blogs out there (atrios!) will update!
Here is a post by the web designers in charge of Blogger’s new look, talking about the creative process. (via BoingBoing)
Personally, since I install the software myself on my own server, I’m waiting to see how MovableType 3.0 turns out, but I’m thinking about possibly switching over to WordPress when version 1.2 comes out of Beta (although switching over from MT to WordPress seems like a nightmare – especially if I don’t want to break any links to existing posts…)
UPDATE: Seems that both the new Blogger and MT 3 have Unicode turned on by default! Also, I should note that the new Blogger should work with the wonderful Ecto software for the Mac or PC.
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If you are using MT 2.x I’m sure upgrading to 3.0 will be fairly painless and explained in the documentation. I was worried about moving to WordPress, which I like better because it is entirely dynamic (no rebuilding) – but I worry about keeping my links if I do that, it seems complicated, since it would be a different system and all my links would have .php endings instead of .html. The only solution seems to be to use some kind of .htaccess redirection but that seems less than ideal…
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I’m also waiting for MT 3.0 and wondering how to transfer over without losing all the links to posts…
Yes it will be nice to see blogger users updating to the new bloggar and using trackbacks etc..