Well, I finally got an installation of MT that works for me, however, so far, I HATE it. I am in extreme dislike of the templates and would prefer to be able to use my own creations, but the setup doesn’t seem to be conducive to that type of thing. Frankly, I’m not thrilled with having my blog that is hosted on my paid servers look like it’s on Vox or TypePad, which is precisely what it looks like. And frankly, I don’t have time to sit here and try to figure out the ins and outs of the template structure for MT. It only took me a couple of hours to figure out the theme structure for WordPress, but I can’t even figure out where in MT the templates are stored, much less how to make my own. I’m thinking I’ll play with the MT installation I have, but that I’m going to pretty much stick to WP for my blogging. I know it, it’s easy, and frankly, except for the occasional issue, I haven’t had any major problems with it.

All blogging platforms have their good and bad points. I know people who wouldn’t touch MT and I know people who won’t even consider WP. There’s a gal I work with who won’t leave Blogger no matter WHAT they do. She says if they ever shut down Blogger, she just wouldn’t have a blog. Now THAT is dedication to a blog platform.

I’ve tried Vox, TypePad, WordPress.com, Blogger, LiveJournal, DeadJournal, MySpace, B2Evolution, GreyMatter, Nucleus, and CuteNews. I’ve blogged without the aid of ANY platform at all. I’ve even used the oddball Tripod and Angelfire blogs. So yeah, I’ve been all over the blogging platform world. My favorite is WordPress and frankly, I just think I’m going to stick with it for now. Maybe I can get MT working the way I want it to, but if not, oh well. WP works fine for me.

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