Over at Economist.com, we’re using Movable Type to power our blogs, the first of which is Free exchange. We did a comparison of the features of the two foremost blogging products (the other being WordPress) and plumped for MT. I started out with MT here, but changed to WordPress (Yahoo! Small Business has both available and it’s pretty easy to trash one and start again). The main reason has been lost in the mists of time, but as I type this into the WordPress GUI editor, I realise just how clunky these editors are.

I had to edit some HTML yesterday and boy oh boy does it mess up when you try and do a mixture of  HTML and GUI editor. Tags get put in all over the place, non-standard HTML gets created and you just end up with a mess. I started to clean it up but in the end I just parked it for now.

The lesson: don’t edit the same post with the GUI editor and in plain HTML.

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