A few quick thoughts on throwing up an MT site, I suppose, even though all I did was modify their Unity template.
- The design interface is rather elegant once you see what it's trying to do, what with the dynamic links to installed widgets and all, but it does take some getting used to
- Making changes at broadband speed is brutally slow, especially when you've got to close tags in the footer which you opened in the header. I can't think of any way to get around this, but the option of opening multiple sections or have the ability to collapse them within the same page would be terrific. Overwhelming, but terrific.
- I still haven't figured out how to copy a style template, which would've been quite nice. Still, other than figuring out what the mt-specific tags are, there isn't that much magic going on behind the scenes. I think the people whining that they can't figure out which section is what are complaining a bit much.
- I wonder how difficult it is writing a widget?
- Some printable documentation would be nice. If there's a problem with wiki-style documentation, it's that trying to learn from a "Getting Started" guide takes you across twenty different pages and you've lost sight of the beginning once you get to the end.
- Once everything's in place though, even the bare minimum, everything just works - archives, comments, permalinks, everything. Beautiful. Certainly beats the headache of wrestling with Textpattern any day (although their simpler interface makes image/file-handling rather easy).
Movable Type also created a comment for me as well so that I could see what a comment will look like on my blog once people start submitting comments on all the posts I will write.