TennesseeTicket

For instance, Blogger goes into the recycling without being opened. I've tried that before. I don't think I'm impressed with what WordPress says it offers. Educate me if you feel differently.

I've been happy, so far, with using Movable Type here on Chattablogs. I'm a control freak, though, and so I think I would feel better owning my own license. That, and the fact that for over a year I've been relying on the kindness of strangers instead of being a paying customer who can thus demand quality, are what is driving me to look around.

Moving will be a pain, because there are a number of nice people out there in the world who have this address rolled, and whose feedreaders pick up my current signal. Oh, well. Others have done it, and we still know who they are.

As far as platforms go, I will likely stick with something of what Six Apart offers; but I'm just not sure which direction to go. I do like that one can easily up/downgrade among the three TypePad account types. MT on the one hand seems too involved -- I just want to blog, and keep up my candidate pages -- but on the other hand it may be the only option that satisfies my insatiable need for full control of my environs.

I've had my domain (tennesseeticket.com) parked since January and I want to take it out on the superhighway. Hosting is another question, but I'm following some good leads on that front.

Oh, so many questions, and, worse yet, so many viable answers. If you care to lend a hand down to a brother on his way up this learning curve, I'll really appreciate it.

Now if I can just learn some danged keyboard shortcuts for the Mac..who cares about the number of mouse buttons? What's a mouse? I need my Alt+Tab window switching!