[Moving to Movable Type] 

Okay... after messing around with Movable Type for a few weeks now, I have decided to junk Blogger and move to MT. Blogger isn't bad. It's just that MT is great. It has so much more flexibility than Blogger.

If you're totally lost, Movable Type is a weblog publishing tool that resides on the server, as opposed to someone else's server. In other words, you would log in to a location on the mathcaddy.com domain instead of at blogger.com.

Anyway, I'm excited, although it's already been a ton of work trying to get all the old stuff into the system. You can see the temporary site here. Please note that it is temporary. I will need to rework the design, for certain. It will probably not end up looking like our current site, but hopefully it will look decent when I'm done with it.

In addition to redesigning the site, a significant issue is the fact that I will have to rebuild every single comment, one by one. Because of how tedious a task that sounds to be, I plan to just rebuild the essential comments... just the ones that are the most relevant or interesting.

The other major roadblock to making the switch to MT is a pretty substantial one - because the only person who can do anything about it is you. You have to start using MT instead of blogger.

I have to set up new users for each of you and you have to start using the new system. It is very intuitive and I think if you've used blogger, you won't have any problem with it. But it does work differently. Once I'm ready to have you switch from blogger to MT, I will send an email to each of our regular contributors letting them know the next steps they need to take.
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