Shocked and Awed
Posted by Stuart at 11:53 AM on July 07, 2003I have been Shocked and Awed.
This morning I received an email inviting me to be a Beta tester for the new Type Pad hosted web publishing system from Movable Type. I have played with it this morning and I have to say it is absolutely amazing.
I'll even take it a step further: This is the greatest web publishing tool ever. I have used the horrible tools from Yahoo Geocities -- even taught my computer students how to use it. But Geocities is not a good tool. TypePad is not only good, it is perhaps one of the best interactive websites ever created on the internet. Period. I can not say enough good things about it.
If Movable Type can make the price right (i.e., as low as possible) there is no doubt in my mind that thousands of personal websites will pop up over night.
I have spent less than 30 minutes setting everything up, writing one post, and posting 5 pictures from Bangkok. Check out the results at http://sgtowns.typepad.com/.
Congratulations, Movable Type!
Was browsing Google and found your site, enjoyed the reading, thanks
Concur with every word you've said about Typepad. It does look great, clean, and no banners or popups. I've got a few simple gliches with mine, but it's probably something I'm doing, or not doing. As you say, if the price is right, then the competition will be watching their tails.