Movable Type was the first major package available for Web logs, and is arguably
the most popular package in use today. It is written in Perl, a popular
scripting language that runs on nearly every operating system, and can use a
variety of databases to store blog content, including MySQL, SQLite, Berkeley
DB, or even PostgreSQL. Wealth of plugins that can bring new functionality to
your basic installation are available for Movable Type.
Movable Type (MT) and is a kind of "blogging for dummies," it is aimed at the
beginner and assumes little knowledge of website design/building. However,
programmers and other web gurus unfamiliar with blogging may find it useful.
Movable type of blogs are easy to manage with a feature of template editor that
enables the user to alter the look and feel of your weblog offering an intuitive
template tag language to provide greater control over the type of the content
thats displayed on your templates.
Wordpress
WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL
database. WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog, developed by Michel
Valdrighi. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of
lead developer Matt Mullenweg.
WordPress has two components, one is a free, Web-based blog-hosting service
called WordPress.com. The other is WordPress.org, which provides users with
software to run a more feature-rich version of the blogging tool on their own
servers.
Features of WordPress include:
Integrated link management
Search engine-friendly permalink structure
Extensible plug-in support
Nested categories and multiple categories for articles
Track Back and Pingback
Typographic filters for proper formatting and styling of text
Static Pages
Multiple Authors
Can store a list of users that visit your blog
Can block a person's IP address
Tag support
Expression Engine
Expression Engine is server-based software written in PHP which is described as
no less than the world's most creative and powerful web publishing software.
Expression Engine is a flexible, powerful tool that is targeted at more
tech-savvy bloggers. Its fairly easy to install and configure, and you can
tailor settings at a very detailed level. Youll need an understanding of HTML
to format posts. Expression engine has a very nice versioning feature for
templates that allow you to see previous versions and roll back to anyone of
them if necessary. Expression engine template tags are of the form {tag}
making them easier to distinguish from (X)HTML and PHP tags. Tags are fairly
comprehensive, correctly documented and extensible by plugins.
Expression Engine's flexible architecture allows an endless range of
possibilities. It make simpler the process of managing your site while giving
you more creative possibilities since you won't have to maneuver around your
site's infrastructure, editing and uploading files. You can simply add your
content in the EE Control Panel and the system will automatically format it
based on your template designs.
