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Yeah, Moveable Type. I think this is one of the reasons some Uni's switched to Word Press for their blogging. p.s. See you this afternoon at the Future of Writing talk, those who are attending. M Mark R Hancock MemeCortex.net -------Original Message------- From: marc <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [WDL] Is it me, or is it Movable Type? Sent: 27 Feb '06 13:19 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 >+44 (0)116 207 8266 >[log in to unmask] >http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~sthomas/ >DMU Online MA in Creative Writing & New Media >http://writing.typepad.com/cwt/ > > > > >********** > > > > > > > >* Visit the Writing and the Digital Life blog http://writing.typepad.com > > > >* To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to Subscriber's Corner at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html > > > >* To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE > > > > ********** * Visit the Writing and the Digital Life blog http://writing.typepad.com * To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to Subscriber's Corner at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html * To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE ********** * Visit the Writing and the Digital Life blog http://writing.typepad.com * To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to Subscriber's Corner at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html * To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE