OK. I’ve gone from MoveableType to Blogger to Blosxom to Pebble, back to Blogger, and now to WordPress. I’m impressed with the interface. It’s much easier to work with than most other systems I’ve been on.
I’ve tried to structure the permalinks so that they’re easy to port to another system later on. I’ve eliminated the dates from them altogether. I figure I’d prefer to make my titles unique anyway, and you shouldn’t have to know the date of a post to link to it. Let me know if you’d like to see it differently.
So my next set of work is to bring all my old posts in. I’ve never caught any of my blogs up to date yet, so cross your fingers. I just might do it.
UPDATE: I’ve changed my permalink structure back to the traditional /archives/year/month/day format since it had some unexpected side effects. My calendar no longer had valid links for day summaries, and I really want that. I just supposed (naively, I guess) that archive links to months and days would always force a date structure on the URL but the truly permanent link could be constructed without any date information using a purely unique identifier. Maybe I’ve just been staring a Russel Beattie’s permalinks too long.
January 24th, 2005 at 09:05
You’ve probably seen this already, but you can export all of your content from Pebble as a single RSS/RDF/Atom feed. It’s on of the items in the blog administration links section after logging in. I’ve always tried to make the Pebble interface as easy to use as possble but if you have any feedback on how to make it better then please let me know. I’ve not used WordPress so you would interested to hear your thoughts. Thanks, Simon
January 24th, 2005 at 19:10
The biggest reason for my switch was that my service provider didn’t support Java well. I would find that Tomcat would freeze and all traffic to my blog would halt because Googlebot came by and my memory hard limit was reached. The only web application I ran was Pebble, but I fault the provider. In looking for a new provider, TextDrive seemed like it was cheaper and would meet my needs for now, even without Java. WordPress also seemed to have a decent set of predone styles that could be quickly applied.
I still am quite impressed with Pebble, and would definitely recommend it as the best Java-based blog software out there!