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Wednesday, March 24, 2004A Tutorial Weblog: Great Approach!
I'm not switching from Radio UserLand to Movable Type just yet, but the day will surely come. Radio UserLand is a nice CMS, but lacks some basic features (such as post to past or future, spell checking, etc.) and has stability problems. The company is focused on Manila now, which they should, given the price people paid for that package. However, other packages are starting to eat their lunch at the low end.
A Tutorial Weblog: Great Approach!. Never underestimate the value of a good tutorial.
In the last couple of weeks, I've started getting much more comment spam on this weblog than ever before. When it was only one or two comment spams per day, that was no big deal for me to delete manually. But lately it's been more like 20-40 comment spams daily. I finally had to implement some prevention measures.
One reason I've held off on this task is that I use Movable Type weblog software. While I like its functionality, from the beginning I've disliked the extreme geekiness (from my perspective) of Movable Type. Its documentation is minimal, hunting for answers in the support forum is confusing and time-consuming, and fixing anything requires messing with arcane code. A non-programmer like me can easily do a lot of damage trying to make a simple tweak to my weblog. (Which is why the design of CONTENTIOUS is so basic.)
Fortunately, I've just discovered a fabulous and well-written resource for people like me, which I'd like to recommend.
If you use Movable Type and you're not a programmer, check out the Learning Movable Type blog at Elise.com. This is the most coherent, practical, and readable basic resource on Movable Type that I've seen anywhere....
(Full story...) [Contentious Weblog]
Get Better Rankings on Google With Weblogs
Get better rankings on Google with weblogs.
Lee LeFever: Case Study: Using a Weblog to Achieve #1 Rankings in Google.
Most of this stuff matches my own experiences as well.
[Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
Gallery RSS Generator
“Gallery RSS Generator is a script to generate an RSS (version 2.0) feed for an installation of Gallery. For more information on what RSS is, and why it’s nice, see Dave Winer’s RSS 2.0 specification. Even though you may not use an aggregator to keep up with your favorite websites, someone who visits your gallery might. Hence, it’s helpful for everyone.”By meryl@lockergnome.com (Meryl). [Lockergnome’s RSS Resource]