This Blog Goes to 11

This is my first blog posting using Movable Type. I wasn't sure what the learning curve was going to be (now I wasn't expecting it to be rocket science), so I wasn't entirely sure what to expect. Was it going to be really easy to do, or would I have to wade through page after page just to make a simple post? Well, my first impressions are that it is a pretty intuitive platform (although, It doesn't hurt that I share an office with Brad who can answer any questions that I have). It's simple, yet not overly so, and offers a good deal of configuration options and settings that allow me to customize it to my liking. Some of these options I am going to need to explore in more detail and will probably be more useful after I have more posts under my belt. But for a first time, I have to say that this was a pretty smooth experience.

I was going to write about how I just used StyleCatcher to select a design for my blog page, but then I thought that that should be its own blog post. See, I have to get myself in that mindset - kind of a blog think (sounds a bit Orwellian) I suppose. But without spoiling my next blog, I found the StyleCatcher tool to be easy to use, although I wouldn't have known about it if Brad hadn't mentioned it. I am sure I would have stumbled across it at some point - probably when I'm just clicking on links to see what they do. But that's how you learn, I guess.

Well, I guess it's time to see what else I can do on here. Hmmm. Feed widgets. Let's see what those are...