It’s used by Dan , Dave and Cameron. It must be good. Movable Type is one of the most popular blog publishing tool on the web. So I tried to download the ‘’famous'’ Movable Type. I went to the Movable Type website (link) and looked for a link that would get me to a file ‘’MT.zip'’ or something like that. There wasn’t. There was a link named ‘’Get Movable Type'’, which took me to a complex page with diagrams and text in it explaining the license types, restrictions, etc. I clicked ‘’Free Download'’ in the ‘’Limited Free Edition'’ tab. That’s when all the problems began.

‘’An error occured: No license selected‘’. I emailed the MT support team for informations. I had to set cookies on. I had to scroll down all my list of ‘’Blocked cookies'’ list to find the site ‘’secure.sixapart.com'’. After I had to login to TypeKey to download the file. They said that I can use my TypePad account name to login. I tried but it didn’t work. I tried the ‘’Forgot your password?'’ function, it didn’t work. I finally created a new TypeKey account with my hotmail address.

Now, I could download MT-3.01D.zip. The problem: there was no Total Size given when I downloaded the file in FireFox, nor in Internet Explorer. I have a very slow connection, so it’s always interesting for me to know the size of the file I’m downloading to estimate the time it will take. But that time, I couldn’t estimate if there was going to take 10 minutes, or 2 hours…

I emailed the support team again, to learn that the file size was 1.3MB, which is not a big deal for me, about 15-20 minutes. So when the download was finished — well, I guessed it was finished because I didn’t have any progressbar or a percentage to indicate the download progress, but the file was in my downloads directory — so when the download was done, I thought MT would be as easy to install as Cutenews is. I was wrong.

I never succeed in installing Movable Type. Well… I’m not even sure if I have all the things it’s requiring. I don’t know if I can use Perl on my site, I prefer PHP. I don’t know how databases (SQL) are working. But when I scrolled down the installation and configuration instructions, I was just scared!

In conclusion, I know that Movable Type is great. I know it contains more functions than Cutenews. I know it’s using standards, I know you can use SmartyPants plugin with it!!! But, what I like in Cutenews is the fact that it is flexible, nothing less. Flexibility is cool. Maybe MT is flexible too, I never tried it. But Cutenews is all I want. If I’m wrong about any point in this entry, please let me know, politely please.