After a few days of sketching and PS mockups I think I finally have the new 20seven.org design close to being in a state that I'm comfortable enough to start working on the CSS for the big switch to Movable Type. However, I'm sure after I sleep on this tonight I'll probably wake up tomorrow with something I don't like. A design for yourself is always ten times harder to work on. I thought I'd throw it out there for thoughts.
[Update] I've bailed on MT4. I'll update in another post about why I've gone this route.
On Sunday, Mar 23
Wow, what brought on the move to MT? I wasn't aware you were considering it. Looks like a nice design.
On Sunday, Mar 23
The biggest reason Richard is openid for logins but the more I work with MT the more I like it. I've been working with it for two or three weeks now and even with the upgraded WP interface, I'm still going to make the switch.
On Sunday, Mar 23
I started with MT and always liked their graphic design better. Wordpress is the ugliest pice of #### I've ever seen and thank god Zeldman is involved. One reason I switched was because MT still used perl and wasn't truly dynamic. I'm not sure where it is today but doing template updates required rebuilding the entire site and took time. Is it still like this?
On Sunday, Mar 23
I agree with you on WP Richard. Everytime I work with the admin I get the feeling that it's the WalMart of blogging engines. Zeldman did a great job on it but it's still not where I'd like it to be and that's not a reflection on his team but a limitation of the software itself.
Yes, MT still requires a rebuild, however, It doesn't take long and doesn't bother me. You can also have it run on FCGI if you get poor performance which speeds it up some.
I did a complete test drive on expression engine too along-side MT and WP and to me, MT just feels better. It has more flexibility in my opinion.
One thing I hate about WP is textile support and the editor. Even though I have the editor turned off, WP has a mind of it's own and will sometimes blow up my formatting. MT's support for textile has been flawless so far.
On Sunday, Mar 23
I agree completely on WP's editor. I'd love to dump it so I'm watching your MT work with interest.
On Sunday, Mar 23
I'm going to be documenting this transition Richard and will put it in writing when it's complete.
On aside, I've slept on the design and now it's bugging me. Figures.
On Sunday, Mar 23
hey, there is no perfect design and no doubt you'll be changing it often. If MT makes that hard, that's a negative for it in my mind. The great thing about WP for me has been being able to design on the fly (as much as I design anything, which is not much). The thought of rebuilding templates got a bit rough as my site grew. At this point with thousands of posts I'm not sure I'd like to go through that. Unless of course it's gotten better since then. There are lots of big blogs using MT but they tend not to change designs all that often. We'll see...
On Monday, Mar 24
Can't wait to see the new site! And welcome to the MT community. :)
On Monday, Mar 24
Thanks Anil. I'm enjoying it so far.
On Wednesday, Apr 2
if i ever switch from WP it'd be to something like Tumblr (the Wii of blogging platforms). so what's up with bailing on MT? give give.
On Thursday, Apr 3
Tumblr is definitely nice Ed.
In brief it's a performance issue between MT's CGI and my server not being optimized for it. If I can tweek the server so when publishing the CPU load doesn't spike up to 7.0+ then I will revisit. I definitely like MT. As of late I'm rolling my own Ed.