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tip
if you're a librarian or someone who's working on Web space
within a company or institution, be sure to clear it with the it
people before you start installing software. in your case, the it
folks might actually prefer that a software package is installed on
the site instead of an external ftP connection touching the site.
Movable Type
Movable Type (sixapart.com/movabletype) is a complex application, and
sometimes it can be frustrating, but its lexibility is amazing. In addition,
Movable Type is supported by a large community of people who are con-
stantly developing plug-ins and add-ons for it.
Pricing. Movable Type has several layers of pricing, ranging from a per-
sonal version with no support for free, all the way up to an enterprise-level
version that you have to contact Movable Type to get pricing for. here are
discounts ofered for not-for-proit and educational groups.
Installing. To install Movable Type, you have to go through a several-step
process that includes downloading a compressed set of iles, uncompress-
ing and uploading them to your site, setting ile permissions (so that the
core programs that make up Movable Type will run), and then tweaking
coniguration iles so that the program looks for data in all the right places.
Ater that, you must log in to Movable Type, set up your irst blog, and set
your preferences. It's not rocket science, but it is time consuming.
Movable Type ofers a tool you can download and run on your server to
make sure that your server has all the Perl modules and other bits neces-
sary to run Movable Type. If your Web site passes the test, be sure to follow
the instructions step by step so that you don't later trip over some step you
missed. If you're nervous about installing the sotware yourself, Movable
Type can, for a small fee, install the sotware for you.
Features. Movable Type ofers a lot of functionality right out of the gate.
Some of the things you might want to pay attention to are the fact that some
of the versions of Movable Type allow you to publish unlimited blogs on
your server (again, only recommended if you're publishing information on
very diferent topics), can accept comments (where people make comments
directly on your site) and trackbacks (where people link to your page and