new blog tool installed, migration in process

preferring to show works in progress, and not being one to always only unveil something is completely done and ready to go, here is my work in progress as I migrate from MovableType to b2evolution.. some first impressions: very fast response time, as b2 is written in php, blogs seem to be displayed dynamically, allowing for extra features like instantly switching between skins for displaying pages, multilingual support, multi-user support, multi-blog support, and with all these features, it has a price point of free = donor-supported.

Why the change away from MovableType? I don’t mind paying for good software [in fact, pMachine was on my short list], but the performance of PERL scripts has been disappointing, and I didn’t like the many HTML files strewn around, which had to be generated in order to display blog entries (with b2, blog entries are displayed dynamically via database calls, thus using far less web server space) — this is a factor when I have archives going back to June 1999.. beautiful thing is the import tool from MT to b2 worked incredibly, even imported comments, almost perfect! (except for how it didn’t let my HTML in very smoothly, so I have to go back and edit them manually).. and with the change of a web hosting server, it seemed timely to change blog software, and an overall website redesign will be soon following.. just that it all takes longer than I wish it could b/c I am still working my 2 jobs and maintaining sanity..