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why i’ve switched to wordpress

benjamin — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:31:11 +0000

I started this blog in November of 2007 and decided to use Movable Type as my engine. It appeared to the geeky web designer in me. Over the past few months I’ve become unsatisfied with Movable Type. Every time I set up a blog for a friend or a client, I use Wordpress because it’s very fast for me to setup and skin, and is easy for the client to use. When I decided to setup my own blog, I mistook this intuitive quality to also mean a lack of robustness.

I was wrong.

My reasoning was that since Movable Type is so complicated with so many layers and so much back-end (the Movable Type installation package is four times the size of Wordpress’) it must be better and more highly configurable. My experience has been that the opposite is actually true!

Here are several advantages I found in Wordpress that eventually made me switch:

Wordpress’s templates are based on an easily manageable system of PHP includes — Movable Type is unbelievably cumbersome to customize
the layout of the Dashboard is far superior both in design and organization — site administration in Movable Type is cumbersome and bloated
Wordpress does not have to republish the entire site after making a template change — Movable type does

Of course one of the biggest advantages of Wordpress is the speed and ease of installation. It’s a brilliant platform and I’m glad to be on the Wordpress train!

P.S. I should add that migration was extremely simple. The only snag I hit was making sure that all my old Movable Type links would point to the new Wordpress pages. You have to keep Google happy and since I only have 30 posts at the time of this article, I just opted to do a manual htaccess redirect for each link.

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it’s official

benjamin — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:55:22 +0000

I have officially started a new album this weekend! I spent the past two days tracking drums at a great studio here in Toronto, and things are sounding absolutely killer. I’m really excited about the project, and think there will be songs that almost anyone can enjoy – from people who want something to bob their heads to, to all out “snobs.”

Stay tuned!

i lost my moleskine

benjamin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:11:36 +0000

A tragedy! I lost my notebook on the Go Train, so it’ll be a while until I can start my next series called “Ways of Knowing” as I have re-write everything.

Shouldn’t be long I hope.

Cheers.

it starts

benjamin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:19:05 +0000

I guess you can only avoid caving to the pressures of Web 2.0 for so long. So here I am, in all my bloggy splendour.

So, until I’m able to compose and compile volumes of articles, please enjoy this small book, A Brief Conception of Being.

Cheers.