Egyptian Chronicles: Movable Type beta 4 : The natural evolution of MT

Ok boys and girls ,Movable Type is ready for battle with wordpress , it won't stand after this time silent where as the free platform is taking over the blogging world and here it is presenting to you its coming version of Movable Type beta 4 as Open source and free as it is used to be ,after all putting a price tag on their platform seemed to be so costly

Anyhow for those who are curious enough to try the Movable Type beta 4 at least the usability not the installation which I read was improved a lot but not as easy as WP

The interface reminds me with Vox ,really this platform is present in MT so much "already I am a Vox user"

There are plugins , of course not so popular don't forget it wasn't an open source

Another feature is the ease to create several blogs and still control them in one admin area , already this feature is not available in Wordpress and I don't think it will be add soon , it is available only in wordpress MU

Already I made my EG "Egyptian Chronicles" testing blog there

Now here is a wonderful feature that doesn't exist automatically in any blog platform except by adding it "The creative common license" in the general setting of your blog

Another feature is good this time in the publishing settings that I like is the option to have your archive to alternate path

Not that only the options to preserve your archive whether in html or whatever extension you want

In the Entries section ,there are no big differences between it and any other blog platform at least in point of view except may be the choice of choose the Text formatting whether by Rich Text editor or by code or by Textile 2 "used in Vox"

In the comments section also there are no difference except the integration of Open id and other six apart platform as sort of Authentication methods

Then we got Track back settings something we want in blogger.com for a very long time and I wish we will have it in the end

Then we got the Spam section to fight spam comments ,after it we got the web service section , just like Wordpress if you have the Type Key which is like for example the Google account or API wordpress.com key you can access the Typepad ,you can have one for free like me so you can comment easily on Typepad blogs

Then we got to the most powerful part of any blogging system now ,the plugins , there are not much ,don't forget we are in the beta

Now I headed to editor section to write some Lorem alike post with testing other features , you still have the option to change the editor for a drop down ,now the uploading process for photos is impressive using Ajax ,after you finish upload you got a good Ajax setting window for alignment,size and all that jazz ,ah and description to the image with tags

Uploading other files whether audio or video is available just like in Vox

The page editor section has the same system, by the way Typepad added the page feature when will blogger add it too ??

The other sections are from arranging categories,files,tags..etc ,editing and managing posts and pages

I don't know much about the template system in MT but I see they added widgets , well it is the fashion of the blogging world for 2007

In the end I think it is not bad , in fact it is good , it beats Wordpress in its terrible admin UI ,they are using Ajax in the correct place

anyhow my tour is finish here ,I hope you enjoyed my review and if you want to have a ride in it for free you can try it in

www.movabletype4.org

I may sound impressed and really I am because here I feel as a blogger who is using and used almost every blogging service on this earth that MT is working hard to restore their position ,after all Live Journal is theirs and we all know how popular LJ was and still among teenagers and fans around the globe , and in the end like Fairoz the soft drink was the natural evolution for cold drink in Egypt ,MT4 open source is the natural evolution for MT

This move for MT proves something a reality many wise software companies released that to survive in second by second changing world you must in the end use the open source and GLP

N.B it may take long time to enter due to the great number of visits in the same time ,I think the site was digged, and I hope that you like my review :)