[thelist] Weblog "help"

[Julia Frizzell]

I've been using Blogger for a short time now with my blog, but was 
tempted into trying Greymatter since it's all run and hosted by me 
and my site, and I could easily do the comment thing. I had some 
problems with the installation, but got those sorted out, and my 
temporary site is working.

But I've found the interface (using .cgi) to be *really* annoying. I 
often have to reload the page *multiple* times to get the password to 
take, to get pages to rebuild, etc. I thought it may have just been 
me with OSX and IE 5.1, until I tried it with Netscape 6 (wouldn't 
even load the .cgi) and Opera (same problems as IE 5.1, once I got it 
running). So then I tried at home from the PC, thinking it was maybe 
OSX, but had the same problems using IE there too.

I also found it non-intuitive to change the templates. I like plain 
ol' HTML, and trying to design a template looked to be some work.

So, all that said -- I was wondering if anyone could recommend 
another blog-type software bit to use, something I could maybe run on 
my own site instead of using someone else's server. I know HTML, 
that's all. Don't know php (but could maybe start learning) or perl 
or anything like that, so the simpler, the better.

I *am* happy with Blogger. I just want to try comments without having 
to do the popup thang.

Thanks in advance!
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Julia Frizzell
julia_frizzell at brown.edu
glyneth at sfad.org
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