I was looking into moving the blog to Typepad. I spent two hours or so playing with Typepad. It seems easy enough to use. Does anyone have any comments about whether this would be a good or bad idea?
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hi, LG. as an expert on blogs, i would say move yours to the toilet for now. don't bother with typepad.
I've alwasy liked TypePad and the Movable Type software it's based on for ease of use and looks. KickAAS and Democratic Freedom both use it:
http://kickaas.typepad.com/
http://libertariansforamerica.blogs.com/
(For personal blogs I use free stuff instead, but that's a personal preference, and I'm already paying for unix accounts in that case.)
You might consider regular webhosting with a provider that offers PHP and mySQL and install any of the good open source blog software. Advantage to that is that you have all the other things that go with having a complete hosting setup instead of just the blog - storage space, multiple email accounts, ability to install multiple blogs or even host your friends blogs, your own domain name and more I can't think of at the moment. WordPress is an excellent piece of blog software and really does install in under 5 minutes.
I don't really want to know about Perl and MySQL and PHP and whatever other acronyms you guys threw at me. I think it's worth $80/year to avoid that stuff.
The question is whether Typepad's features would make the blog better.
The thing I hate most about Blogger is that it's always so slow to edit my posts and the comments are also so slow.
I also like the "trackback" feature that Typepad has, but I'm not really sure how that works. All I know is that it's not fair that when I link to someone's blog, my blog doesn't appear as a trackback. I feel like I'm being cheated.
I'm technically minded enough to put together a stand-alone WordPress install, and still would recommend TypePad for ease of use. I trusted it for my group's use, and lots of others bloggers (ex: Ygelsias) trust it as well.
It just took about 2 minutes for the comment window to come up! I'm also looking at moving. I'd like to just trun off a regular web site rather than being hosted but I'm worried about the technocal issues also. I'll be back to read more comments, maybe I can learn something.
I used my own hosted blog for a long time. I finally got sick of it and went to dland, lol. Recently I moved to typepad. I like it cuz it works and its easy and I don't have to make things hard for myself.
I agree with you the way you view the issue. I remember Jack London once said everything positive has a negative side; everything negative has positive side. It is also interesting to see different viewpoints & learn useful things in the discussion
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i would prefer typepad because it is very easy to use their blog themes are really cool enough, i just enjoy using typepad account.
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