Blogs are great content management systems (CMS) and can very easily be customized to look like a regular website. I do not have direct access to the CSS files for this blog, so I’ve not done much to change the look and feel of this site, so it still has a ‘bloggy’ look. It is a pain to override CSS locally. And to contact someone to effect CSS changes doesn’t make a lot of sense. I could have changed some files that are available to me from the Admin panel, but there’s no motivation to do so without full access to the site.

This blog is powered by Movable Type. I personally prefer Wordpress, but MT is the official blogware that is available here at UWW. Wordpress has better control over the creation of static pages, and in the current version of Wordpress you can designate any static page as your home page from the Admin panel, without writing any code. Also, the Wordpress community is huge, and there’s plenty of plugins and themes available for free. Best of all, Wordpress is free licensed under GPL, while Movable Type is a commerical product. I use Wordpress both as blogs, and as CMS for websites.