So, it’s been a mere three days working with TypePad and I can honestly say that I’m loving it. Hell, I’m not sure what I did without it! Sure, it costs more than what I was using (Expression Engine, I got a free subscription to it over a year ago), but the fact that I can’t accidentally delete my blog just by deleting some cache files off of the server or have to worry about running updates on the software on the server that could delete my blog. (Both of which have happened to me.)
The interface, while a bit confusing at first, is pretty intuitive and I really enjoy the fact that I can choose a template (like the one here) that doesn’t look like everyone else’s. (Again, if I modify the template, the worst think that can happen is that it looks bad, not delete my entire blog.) There’s even a spell-check that I can use to make sure that I’m spelling things correctly, as log as I remember to use it…
So, thanks to Tom for helping me talk myself into it and thanks to Jamison (he works for TypePad) for desiging my template! I’ll still be playing with this for a while longer, my next "adventure" will be in importing my old entries into this site so that I’ll have my previous history of entries. Again, if you want to see my old entries (in a poorly-formatted site now), feel free to go here. (It looks crappy, but all my old entries are still there until I can migrate them to this server…)
