Comments on: Giving blogs with Manila http://blogsavvy.net/giving-blogs-with-manila/ BlogSavvy: Professional Blog Consultant - Consulting for blogging in Business, education, a cause, the community, and blogging for Money! Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:24:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Blogsavvy: Professional Blog Consultant - Consulting for blogging in business, education, the community, activism and for money http://blogsavvy.net/giving-blogs-with-manila/#comment-375 Blogsavvy: Professional Blog Consultant - Consulting for blogging in business, education, the community, activism and for money Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:58:23 +0000 http://blogsavvy.net/giving-blogs-with-manila#comment-375 [...] 1. Movable Type 2. Manila [...] [...] 1. Movable Type 2. Manila [...]

]]> By: Peter Baumgartner http://blogsavvy.net/giving-blogs-with-manila/#comment-374 Peter Baumgartner Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:03:44 +0000 http://blogsavvy.net/giving-blogs-with-manila#comment-374 I absolutely agree with you. We used for educational purposes Manial for several years. At our starting point is was much cheaper and one of the leading edge software in the field. One intriguing feature for us was the combination of an traditional CMS with Blog features and the possibility to create on one server multi-blogs/multi-websites. But Manila lost ground over the years and is on the features list so god any more. The interface was and is horrible. Many bug in the Frontier kernel, absolutely no response after reporting bugs and a strong insensibility against localization (Umlaute and other special characters) made it a cumbersome experience. We changed this summer (much to late!) to open source Zope/Plone (because of our double needs of CMS und Weblog) and are very happy with it. I absolutely agree with you. We used for educational purposes Manial for several years. At our starting point is was much cheaper and one of the leading edge software in the field. One intriguing feature for us was the combination of an traditional CMS with Blog features and the possibility to create on one server multi-blogs/multi-websites.

But Manila lost ground over the years and is on the features list so god any more. The interface was and is horrible. Many bug in the Frontier kernel, absolutely no response after reporting bugs and a strong insensibility against localization (Umlaute and other special characters) made it a cumbersome experience. We changed this summer (much to late!) to open source Zope/Plone (because of our double needs of CMS und Weblog) and are very happy with it.

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