Test entry
This a new blog using MovableType to do the blog administration rather than blogger. The blogger is great, but the entries in our blog are currently kept on the blogger site, rather than on my own website. And, of late, I've periodically struggled to update out blog using Blogger; must be competing with US net demands.
So. Why Movable Type and not one of the many other CMS systems, such as Drupal, Word Press, or even Mambo? Well, it's alot to do with my hosting package. Yes, I'm on the cheap, but I've not really had to much time to spend so why spend the dosh when I'm not making it work for me. My package doesn't include MySQL access, which discounts Drupal and Wordpress, and pretty much any other CMS solution barring Movable Type. Movable Type uses the Berkeley DB libraries, which are available on my hosting package. Mambo uses tables for layout and that is so past tense!
Another reason is Blogger essentially keeps the content of my Lands Beyond blog of the kids on the blogger servers. On the other hand, MovableType is installed on my domain host, and so likewise the content, templates, etc.
The site will hopefully see some changes as I discover more of what I am able to do with both this tool, and the whole HTML/CSS combination of stuff.
One of the next things to be developed is an up to date photo album. I'm thinking of making one with something along the lines of the Photo Gallery as found in Stu Nicoll's CSS Playground demonstration pages. He has a tutorial on how to do this at the Web Reference site.
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