That bastard Sonny has beat me to the punch by migrating his Typepad content over to a stand alone CMS on his brand new site Basshoss.com. He decided to use Wordpress, a cool free CMS created by Matt Mullenweg. Instead of waiting until he finishes his site design he just went ahead and moved everything over. He's balls to the walls like that. Like the guys over at 37Signals say, "Build half an application not a half-ass application". Watch this space...
Just curious, if TypePad's not meeting your needs, what parts could we improve to keep you satisfied on TypePad?
Posted by: Anil | March 31, 2005 at 12:50 AM
I'm not saying I'm dissatisfied at all. I love Typepad but I'm ready to merge all of my sites into one. Don't worry, I'm almost 100% certain that I'll be using Moveable Type as my CMS of choice.
Posted by: Jonah | March 31, 2005 at 09:24 AM
Anil,
I enjoyed using typepad completely and it is a great application for what it is. The reason I made a switch is because there are some limitations in typepad such as the inability to use plugins I wanted more than one blog that I could have different photo albums on each without paying the extra charge. I also want to seamlessly integrate my blog into my website. I think some added features to typepad such as an advanced stats option that records the IP, OS and timezone would also be a nice addition. I guess lack of control is the main reason I made the switch.
I chose wordpress as my CMS because it is a new tool licensed under the GPL with an active community for me to learn from. (Because I severly lack in web skills). They have a large and growing plugin base, and the numbers of PHP/MySQL/HTML developers willing to lend a hand are staggering.
I am very impressed that you are willing to ask individual customers what they think of your products and what could be done to improve them.
Posted by: chomps | March 31, 2005 at 12:37 PM