Comments on: MovableType to WordPress

By: patrick

patrick — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:08:19 +0000

For what it’s worth, I REALLY like this design, especially so because it mimics a print piece (and well).

Having used both WordPress and TextPattern, I found TxP fare more confusing and much less intuitive than WordPress. If you know PHP, WordPress is a better way to go due to the template tags.

They are both easy to be up and running with in less than an hour, so they both win there.

By: cristinamarie

cristinamarie — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:40:37 +0000

Not too long ago I owned a domain where I blogged. I used Movable Type and had someone else install it for me. I, not too familiar with installtion etc, I thought having someone else install it to my site would be great. Even afterwards, I found it difficult to navigate and I did read the “how to” install/setup MT to your site. Now I’m with Wordpress and I find it very easy to navigate through the so-called undesired mess.

By: Dan Rubin

Dan Rubin — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 22:10:08 +0000

Jeroen: Regarding the menus, thanks for the input, but remember this is mostly an experiment (a luxury I can afford since this is my personal site). I’m interested to see the reaction to ‘labels’ like those in columns 2 and 3, since they are indeed low contrast and verticle. I wanted to see how far I could push the contrast barrier.

I take issue with TextPattern’s UI not only because of how it looks, but also how it works (in my experience, it wasn’t as intuitive as WordPress — that’s not really a measurable problem, but I have to feel comfortable with my personal publishing system).

If someone were to provide an alternate ‘skin’ for TP’s admin, I would indeed give it another try, but it would have to do more than just give it a facelift.

By: Jeroen Visser

Jeroen Visser — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 21:46:24 +0000

Congrats Dan, on the new design. Looking good, but I find the contrast of the headings (‘menu’, ‘projects’, etcetera) to be pretty low. And turning them on their side adds a little extra challenge to reading them.

As for the TextPattern UI: wasn’t it the beauty of XHTML and CSS that you could change the presentation without having to touch the structure? Hence: why not a TXP Tiger Administration CSS?

My current experience with TXP is that it is incredibly elegant, simple and powerful. But apparently its presentation belies its ease-of-use.

By: Zach Inglis

Zach Inglis — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 09:58:24 +0000

I like the new theme very much!

Welcome to the Dark Side too :D

By: Phu

Phu — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 20:28:27 +0000

“thatâ€™s one of the main reasons why the design will be changing again soon”

I’m glad I got here before you did. What a lovely redesign!

Personally, I use WP because it makes the boring stuff easy and allows me to concentrate on the bits I find more interesting, namely designing and writing.

I’ve done my time developing custom CMS’ but sometimes you want something that just works. No need to worry about spam, or messing around with a templating engine. I know my way around and so, I can figure out ways to get it to work for me without me having to put in a great deal of graft.

By: Dan Rubin

Dan Rubin — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:10:41 +0000

Dustin: Nothing like putting a new design in place only to strip it bare less than 48 hours later, eh? :) And I’m still contemplating a new design for the May 1st Reboot…

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:27:50 +0000

I use WordPress (on 4 different sites) because I find it to be the easiest *and* most powerful tool for the job. The plugin functionality is very powerful, and users have written so many great plugins it’s enough to make your head spin. Each of my installations is very different…both in look and feel, and functionality. Each has a different set of plugins enabled, although there are some common plugins I install in every new installation.

The templating system is one of the best I’ve seen. So easy, yet so powerful.

By: Aleksandar

Aleksandar — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:17:27 +0000

Now, this is much more likely design. :) Simple (enough) yet very distinctive - very good work.

I use WordPress. I started way back - used MT pricing thingie as an excuse. I was never comfortable with MT they way I wanted to be and switched to WordPress because:
- it had fired-up developer community
- it was free and will stay that way
- sicne it’s PHP based, it allowed me to do whatever I want without interfering with base code

Reasons for not going TextPattern way - the same as yours. UI is a real turn-off.

By: Dustin Diaz

Dustin Diaz — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:18:59 +0000

Where’s the naked ? - I was expecting to see the redesign come right after ;)