Movable Type 4

While I'm still working out the kinks, the MT upgrade seems to be working.

Seton Hill University students have been blogging at this location since Fall, 2003. In 2004, the work of SHU bloggers has appeared in a North Carolina State University MA thesis, "Web Logs in the Post-Secondary Writing Classroom: A Study of Purposes," and an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Freedom of Speech Redefined by Blogs."

The old login instructions are now out of date, but they will still explain things such as your default password and tips for how to write good blog entries. I will begin updating some of the older SHU blogging tutorials. Those links will appear here as I create them.

MT4 seems to be a big drag on our server's memory... if your site ever seems to hang, please don't reload the page multiple times -- your command is probably just waiting in a long line, and if you submit your request half a dozen times, it will just gum up the system even worse, and then you'll have six duplicate entries (which you will have to delete, which will take even more computing resources).

Working with new media is always a roller-coaster ride, so please bear with me during the transition.

--DGJ

Update: I should point out that I asked my internet to increase the RAM on my virtual server, so that it is in line with MT4's stated minimal requirements, and I could see a performance boost. While it's true that MT4 sucks up a lot more resources than MT3, well, they s