Markjuh

So, what did I do today besides fucking up two important files? Well, mostly been busy with blogging engines today.

I first registered with Six Apart to be able to test their TypePad online blogging service and download Movable Type, which you can install on your own webserver. Getting a TypeKey is quite an annoying process - if I didn’t have to research this, I would have stopped after 1 minute of annoyance – but finally I got everything to work. I got an error message somewhere and filled out an error report and to my amazement they looked at it, pointed me in the right direction and didn’t forget to mention that by the looks of it in their logs, I had figured out what to do myself. So, buggy process, but good feedback. Installing Movable Type was alright, but more annoying than other products.

Then registering with Blogger... This went really painless, just enter some information and you’re good to go. The only negative thing I found so far is that they don’t send an email to confirm your account.

So, which leaves us with WordPress. No registration to be able to download anything, easy installation - once you figure out that you have to set cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 in your php.ini – and good usability.

Which leaves me with the installation of Typo, which I will do tomorrow morning. And then I’m ready to make use cases and screenshots of the different blogging systems. But for now, I call it a day, after working from 8:30 to about 17:15.