There is a book called _Hacking Movable Type_ by by Jay Allen, Brad
Choate et al. I haven't read it, but perhaps it will offer some other
solutions?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076457499X/sr=8-1/qid=1141151039/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-4689865-9190213?%5Fencoding=UTF8
Good luck with the struggle.
c.
On 2/28/06, Sue Thomas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks to several of you who replied to this. We note all your suggestions
> and struggle on!
> sue
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: marc [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 27 February 2006 13:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [WDL] Is it me, or is it Movable Type?
>
>
> Hi Sue,
>
> It's Movable Type.
>
> We have had a few dealings with Movable Type a while back, and in the
> end felt that it was a bit limiting for us and it crashed our server a
> few times, which got rather infuriating.
>
> We now create everything (site structure wise), in PHP, or use Drupal
> for smaller online comunity_linked projects. What we like about PHP, is
> that you can build what you want.
>
> I understand how frustrating it is dealing with helpdesks as well,
> waiting for them to answer important questions when what you need is
> work to dealt there and then, due to one being busy with other things as
> well...
>
> I would suggest using something like Drupal although others might have
> better or closer suggestions to your needs. This is a Drupal site on a
> College server (Ravensbourne) http://www.mazine.ws/
>
> marc
>
>
> >Can anyone help on this? I have been using Six Apart's Typepad
> >http://www.typepad.com for blogging for the past two years and have
> >been very pleased with it, so I wrote a grant application to buy a copy of
> >Movable Type http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ 'the premiere choice
> for
> >weblog power users', to install on our brand new Faculty webserver
> >(purchased according to MT's spec). We were excited to get the grant
> >and installed the new server and software in early January, since when
> >we have been experiencing endless difficulties and now, almost 2 months
> >later, we are no nearer to getting it up and running. The whole thing
> >is hugely frustrating.
> >
> >The development team includes myself, not a programmer but a very
> >experienced Typepad user, plus our Systems Manager, who specialises in
> >php and perl, and a web developer colleague with whom I have worked for
> >several years on Cold Fusion based applications. No novices, I hear you
> >say. So why can't we get any of it working properly? And why is it so
> >difficult to get appropriate MT support? Their helpdesk people are
> >friendly and prompt, but we seem to be going round in circles. And they
> >will only allow one of us to have a helpdesk password, so either I hand
> >over my private passwords to the team, or everything has to go through
> >me.
> >
> >My biggest grouse is that I had thought I was buying a product
> >something like Typepad. Instead, I've got an empty shell which has to
> >be customised with various bits and pieces from numerous different
> >plugin designers, most of which bear little relationship to the
> >functions I liked so much in Typepad, such as Typelist, Design, Themes,
> >Layout etc. Furthermore it seems to require a great deal of template
> >design from the users themselves, and since we bought this in order to
> >show colleagues and students how easy it is to blog, I'm somewhat
> >depressed at the idea of having to train them all to use html
> >templates. We have no money to pay experts to disentangle the
> >situation, and anyway we rather resent any idea that we should have to
> >buy in expertise when we already have plenty of skills at our disposal.
> >So what shall we do?
> >
> >This was certainly not in my imaginings for our wonderful new faculty
> >blogosphere :(
> >
> >Yours, demoralised and fed up with Movable Type
> >
> >Sue
> >
> >
> >Sue Thomas
> >Professor of New Media
> >School of Media and Cultural Production
> >Faculty of Humanities
> >De Montfort University
> >The Gateway
> >Leicester
> >LE1 9BH
> >United Kingdom
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> >http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~sthomas/
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> >http://writing.typepad.com/cwt/
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