This is a single post from deeden.co.uk made during the period May 2002 to April 2009. During a previous grand redesign I decided to make a break with the past and consign the old entries to history. This entry is from July 2002 and lives here forevermore.

Movable type, ahoy

Well I’ve managed to get my blog entries moved from Blogger to Movable Type. It was a slightly painful transition, probably due to my missing one of the steps. In the end I resorted to just creating new entries and cutting and pasting my previous entries. This worked fairly well because I only had 7 entries!

Apart from that I had a few minor browser problems. Omniweb doesn’t seem to want to make the text entry boxes for new entries wider than maybe 20 characters, which is fairly awkward to work with. It also seemed to have trouble with the dates, although I’m not sure yet if that’s a caching or javascript issue. Anyway I’m using Chimera to add this entry. It’s a Mac OS X version of Mozilla which is gradually turning into a rather nice browser.

So after all that I’m rather pleased with Movable Type, it’s easy to use, very configurable and seems to (pretty much) work in the browsers I’ve tried. Now that it’s easier to add new entries I’ll have no choice but to!