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Movable type blogs

Movable Type was the first major package available for Web logs, and is arguably the most popular package in use today. It is written in Perl, a popular scripting language that runs on nearly every operating system, and can use a variety of databases to store blog content, including MySQL, SQLite, Berkeley DB, or even PostgreSQL. Wealth of plugins that can bring new functionality to your basic installation are available for Movable Type.
Movable Type (MT) and is a kind of "blogging for dummies," it is aimed at the beginner and assumes little knowledge of website design/building. However, programmers and other web gurus unfamiliar with blogging may find it useful.

Movable type of blogs are easy to manage with a feature of template editor that enables the user to alter the look and feel of your weblog offering an intuitive template tag language to provide greater control over the type of the content that's displayed on your templates.

Wordpress

WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. WordPress is the official successor of b2cafelog, developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg.

WordPress has two components, one is a free, Web-based blog-hosting service called WordPress.com. The other is WordPress.org, which provides users with software to run a more feature-rich version of the blogging tool on their own servers.

Features of WordPress include:

  • Integrated link management
  • Search engine-friendly permalink structure
  • Extensible plug-in support
  • Nested categories and multiple categories for articles
  • Track Back and Pingback
  • Typographic filters for proper formatting and styling of text
  • Static Pages
  • Multiple Authors
  • Can store a list of users that visit your blog
  • Can block a person's IP address
  • Tag support

Expression Engine

Expression Engine is server-based software written in PHP which is described as no less than the world's most creative and powerful web publishing software. Expression Engine is a flexible, powerful tool that is targeted at more tech-savvy bloggers. It's fairly easy to install and configure, and you can tailor settings at a very detailed level. You'll need an understanding of HTML to format posts. Expression engine has a very nice versioning feature for templates that allow you to see previous versions and roll back to anyone of them if necessary. Expression engine template tags are of the form {tag} making them easier to distinguish from (X)HTML and PHP tags. Tags are fairly comprehensive, correctly documented and extensible by plugins.

Expression Engine's flexible architecture allows an endless range of possibilities. It make simpler the process of managing your site while giving you more creative possibilities since you won't have to maneuver around your site's infrastructure, editing and uploading files. You can simply add your content in the EE Control Panel and the system will automatically format it based on your template designs.

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