I’m putting up a vanity site, a place named after a person and designed to showcase her as a person, to reveal her hopes and dreams, to brag about her background and professional qualifications, her intelligence and good looks. The site is a virtual sash on which she can sew her cyber-scout merit badgelets.
Six Apart released Movable Type 4.2 and I have a hosting arrangement that will survive the strain of the code-heavy low-performance scripting that made Moveable Type so famous. I loaded her up, picked a design, and got into the learning zone. An hour or so later, I realized I’m just not ready to invest a lot of time studying a system that limps along before I’ve even put a load on it, a proprietary structure that may be ever so well designed and secure, but that makes me feel like I’m prototyping in the bottom of a molasses vat.
If you are already a Movable Type fan, then this latest release may be just what you need. As for me, I’ll stick with what I know. Spending the time improving my skill with WordPress or Drupal will be a lot more worthwhile than trying to come up to speed on Movable Type.
Today, every time I hit the MT “publish” button and watched 12 to 15 seconds of my life evaporate while I waited for system processes to complete, I was reminded of why I left TypePad for my own third party hosted WordPress site a few years ago. In the three years I’ve used WordPress it has just gotten better and better. I’m sure Movable Type has improved in that period as well. This may simply be an “old dog, new tricks” situation. Or maybe not.
