Just a silliness but you would think that a spell checker built into the authoring software for any blog system would know how to spell words like blog and blogging right? Doh, not WordPress’ spell checker. I’m already fed up of seeing those words underlined in red.
More seriously, blogging often involves building communities around specialized topics. Those communities are likely to use specialized words and terms. So specialized dictionaries and word packs, etc. or at least easily user extensible dictionaries seem like a natural. No WordPress can’t even add user defined words. I’m off to look at plug-in dictionaries, any suggestions?
I wonder what Movable Type does? I know I’ll go look for it on their web site, oops I can’t seen any mention of this in a quick look, I know I’ll search their site, uh exactly where is the search box… oh no they have to be joking, another Movable Type barrier to adoption.
posted by darryl at 6:26 pm
Why does Six Apart put barriers in the way to adoption of Movable Type? Even small things like up front click through licensing agreements and requiring people to register to download free binaries are barriers to adoption. Especially when competing with software like WordPress that is easily available.
Sure Six Apart has to weigh the cost of those barriers against marketing and sales benefits like capturing prospect information, but I doubt the math will ever come out in favor of being more restrictive. (more…)
posted by darryl at 4:45 pm
For WordPress, the “famous 5 minute install” is not something I would be so proud of. Yes the basic install is quick, but I spent about two days on and off getting things working like I wanted to.
After procrastinating for over a year I’ve finally started using my blog. I had previously designed a layout with Movable Type 3.x, basically it looked similar to what you see here but it sat unused. I looked at it again and was going to upgrade the version of MovableType but thought more about what blog software to go with, and with some advice from others decided to switch to WordPress. (more…)
posted by darryl at 1:02 am
