WordPress fans are out in full force over the new admin interface presented in MovableType 5.1 which was released today. The controversy stems from how eerily similar the admin interface resembles the one that was introduced in WordPress 2.7
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Flattered Or Ripped Off?
Wordometer is used within Movable Type’s Admin interface, on the Edit Entry page. It will could the number of words in your Entry Body, Extended Entry, Excerpt, and Keywords fields, and the number of tags in your Tags field. The word count will update as you type.
Sphere ItAnil Dash from MovableType posted about some favorite corporate blogs. Anil current at technology evangelism event and one of the speaker was Jeremy Zawodny, a long-time Movable Type blogger, one of Yahoo’s most prominent faces in the blogosphere, and a pretty good judge of how to promote things using blogs.
Anil listed some points on make help make for great business blogs:
* there’s some personality in the writing
* they write about stuff that’s interesting to me (or they write it in an interesting way, and that gets my attention)
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Yes, it’s free.
For as many authors as you want, as many blogs as you want, you can just go get it. As always, you can have affiliate links or AdSense or a tip jar on your personal blog. And there’s dozens of new capabilities in Movable Type 3.3 that make it well worth the upgrade, including support for tags, widgets, huge improvements to the templating language, and activity feeds that let you manage all of your blog’s activity right from a single feed.
Eventhough its free, you will get no pro support from MovableType, if you do like get one it will only cost you $49.95. Cheap!
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Sphere ItKrissy from LiveJournal wrote:
Sphere ItWe’re really excited about a new navigation scheme that we’re launching this month. It’s called Horizon, and the goal of it is to make finding things in LJ a whole lot easier.
And now for the part where we try to anticipate your questions:
Wait, what’s a site scheme?
It’s the menus, design and layout of the header that appears on all the site pages.Hmm, why redesign it?
Our existing site schemes were starting to feel the pressure of time — we’ve added a lot of features since we designed them, and it was getting difficult to shoehorn those features into the various menus. The Horizon scheme is designed to be expandable over time, as we add new features.
