August 2006 Archives

It wasn't that long ago that a search through any online bookshop would have returned very few results if you went looking for books about blogging and blogging software. If I were to have mentioned the social and business aspects of blogging I'd probably have found at most one or two books. It's a very different story now! There's even a Rough Guide A quick search on Amazon will find quite an interesting range of books to help you get to grips with some of the more advanced facets of your chosen poison :) Wordpress 2 (Visual QuickStart Guides S.) - I've always found these guides to be excellent. They may not appear to be targetting the more advanced user, but they often make more complex concepts approachable. Building Online Communities with Drupal, PhpBB, and Wordpress Pro Wordpress Development Movable Type Bible: Desktop Edition Sams Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites And that's only a tiny selection! There are plenty more where they came from.........

The Movable Type team recently released Movable Type 3.3, which brings several new features and core changes to the popular blogging tool.

Of course if you are running an older version of Movable Type you will want to upgrade. Fortunately you are not alone!

Learning Movable Type has an easy to follow tutorial on upgrading without getting hurt :)