Tom McGee's Blog

Just off the top of my head, in no par­tic­u­lar order, a few ran­dom things that are dri­ving me crazy today about this blog­ging plat­form. Some of them you’ll need to have the pro­gram installed to see. But take my word for it, these are all part of the lat­est ver­sion of the multi-thousand dol­lar Enter­prise Version.

One: There’s a but­ton on the “Select a Style” page that’s labelled “Down­load new styles.” Do a search for this phrase on the mov​able​type​.org site and no pages are found. Click on the built-in “help” link at the top of the page. Nice touch.

Two: Click the link and fol­low the direc­tions, down­load­ing the styles you’ve cre­ated with a proper URL etc. etc. You’ll see your new thumb­nails installed, and you can even apply them and pub­lish them. Now go away from that Styles page, then come back. Where the F did they all go?

Three: Post on the mov​able​type​.org doc­u­men­ta­tion forum. Spend five or ten min­utes clearly out­lin­ing your prob­lem and click “Post” or “Pre­view.” You get a “not found” error.

Four: You can visit the doc­u­men­ta­tion area start­ing here, and click forward-and-back to see all the things that there are no doc­u­men­ta­tion for.

Five: You can sub­scribe to the devel­oper mail­ing list. Once you’re on and receiv­ing mes­sages, your own posts will be auto­mat­i­cally rejected.

Six: Search­ing their site is point­less. Enter almost any search term and the first result will be “Mov­able Type 4.3 Release Notes.” The rest of the time you’re likely to get an error, no mat­ter how sim­ple your term. I just did a search for “vari­ables” and got one result: “Thank you for attend­ing our webi­nar.” When I clicked on the link I was returned to the home page.