[kiss my crisis]

WordPress or MovableType/TypePad?

I've been very quiet on here lately but it's been for a good reason. In addition to my three children, husband, house, home business, and part time job I've been working on developing a new project. I'm not ready to say what it is just yet but I'm looking for some of your experienced opinions.

I've used blogger before for this and one other business project and, while it is very user-friendly for the most part, it seems somewhat limiting and amateurish. Being that this will be a professional project, I am looking to use either movable type or wordpress and I'd like to hear your experiences and recommendations for either. I would like flexibility with themes/design, options to add a calendar, manage my archives, manage my comments, the option for multiple contributers, good comment spam prevention, and frankly a very low PITA factor (pain-in-the-ass factor). Price is also an issue...free is better than pay-for-service but I'm willing to pay a reasonable price if I get the options I'm looking for.

Any comments you can contribute would be very much appreciated!

1 comments! kim e posted at 9:07 AM
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1 tell me what you really think:

Sorry my advice won't be as direct as I would like... My only practical experience has been with Blogger. I've known people who have gone to each of those formats, and have loved them.

Whenever I'm looking to invest time or money into something, I usually do a yahoo or google search, in this case on "blogging platforms", and read the reviews. They'll usually detail the options, features and differences of each. If you don't find what you need there, you can always try bulletin boards, discussion groups and magazine articles.

Good luck on your project...

By Anonymous, at 10:14 AM, March 22, 2006