After making my my mind up to definitely make the move away from Typepad, it was then whether to use Wordpress or Movable Type. After a fair bit of research I still couldn’t make up my mind, but then I came across a book about setting up a Movable Type blog. As it was written with people like me in mind (i.e. a novice), it swung things in the MT direction.

It was still something of a struggle though, but I’m glad I did it. It’s a bit hard to explain, but moving away from Typepad and getting my own server space makes the site feel much more my own. And you were right about getting to grips with the code and stuff being interesting. As frustrating as it was at times, I did get a strange kind of geeky pleasure out of it. And a great sense of satisfaction when it came out looking something like I wanted.

That said, I don’t think the design will be changing for quite some time!