Sunday, November 06, 2005
It's all foreign to me. Here I am posting to my "Blogger" blog and yet, this week (on the sly), I checked out their competitor "Movable Type" (MT). I was motivated by the Cartel's interest in a blog model for our Locations niche as well as for the possible use in my Bankruptcy case studies for the suits.
Why not just stay with "Blogger" you say? Well, I was concerned with not having the use of what they call trackbacks on rss feeds. You see, those trackback things are rumored to aid in search engine optimization by placing a link on the site where an article originates. Well, things didn't go too smooth. Heck, I came out of pocket again just to try to make setting things up as easy as possible. Nothing doin. I even went thru a partner of MT for hosting, that supposedly provided experience and the install of the commercial setup. What I wanted (naive) was to pay my fees for the hosting and install and be ready to start posting away with research/content I'd amassed. What I got instead was what looked like some kind of challenge game for coders. I wasn't ready to give up on it even after 3 days (and nights) straight of just trying to get a template working. With the lack of sleep, I was starting to get a bit ticked. Even with years of experience with website addresses and the like, I can definately admit I'm still "Lo Tech". Heck, I even turned it over to Weenie and she messed with it the last night, only to leave me a note in the morning saying she could only get some basics done. That's it, I give up. I'll be calling the host tomorrow and telling them if they still want me as a long term client, they will need to set the prog up and install ALL of the plugins or whatever they call them. Then I'll just remove what I don't want and go from there. Seems to me that all these things should be "drag and drop" wysiwyg and people like me should never ever see (let alone need to learn) a single piece of code. Well, I'm back to my "Blogger" and who knows, maybe they'll implement the trackback thing at some point and I'll be happy.