Hey All...
After a very long time user of many CMS's over the year including Wordpress, I'm thrilled to have finally become wise to the real power of Movable Type.
I have just installed MT 5.2 beta and have been loving it's flexibility. Here's some of the things I've been looking for as far as resources are concerned and I'm hoping you guys can lend a hand...
- Are there any books on Movable Type you would recommend?
- Best website resources other than Movabletype.org to help me along the way?
- More importantly, with a lot of large and traffic heavy sites still running MT, what do you think the viability of the platform is for next few years? I'm looking to build out several sites with MT that will make a large network of sites.
Thanks so much everyone and I look forward to the responses!
Scott
Reported on Movable Type 5
For books I don't know any about MT5 unless you read Japanese ;-).
Six Apart is updating its docs on GitHub — here:https://github.com/movabletype/Documentation/wiki — more than they do on Movabletype.org.
I don't know exactly how you define “visibility of the platform”. As far as building and maintaining resilient and heavily trafficked sites for years to come? I think it's definitely one of the best CMS for that on the market today (it's friendly to authors, administrators, designers, not many can claim the same for all those populations). It's even one of the cheapest (frugal) on the long run if you know how to leverage its static publishing capabilities (even to drive a dynamic site).
Scott:
I agree with François that right now there aren't any Movable Type 5 books available in English. At the moment, the leading developers in the community have chosen to devote themselves to consulting work and one-on-one support in places like these Forums and Stack Exchange.
I think that The 'movabletype' area of StackOverflow is a small but high quality question-and-answer site for Movable Type. The StackExchange community is much larger than the MT community, and sometimes you get some useful contributions from people who are not fully part of this site.
Maarten Schenk's website Movable Tips has some really good information on it.
I think the sites run by my company, the After6 Services Support Site, as well as 601am.com's Support Site are useful for when you have a difficult problem or you need professional technical assistance and customer service.
If you need to look at a version of Movable Type that you don't have and don't have time to install, Mihai Bocsaru's site MovableTypeDemo.org is useful.