Mephisto

Jessica — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:03:00 -0500

I was looking for the instructions to upgrade to Typo 4.0 (for my other blog). And my search for “upgrade typo” resulted in a link to Mephisto, which I have been wanting to try. So, I installed Mephisto on my local machine. Here are my first impressions:

I liked that when you log out of Mephisto you are sent straight to your blog instead of some weird “Where would you like to go?” page. I am guessing that you could change this in Typo fairly easily.
I didn’t like that tags have to be separated with commas
I was left wondering, “What was so wrong about Typo that would make you write something like Mephisto? I mean from a UI design perspective Mephisto isn’t that much better than Typo 4.0.”
But I am sure the Mephisto people are working on new features as I type this. So, I am considering upgrading my other blog to Mephisto and keeping this one on Typo. But which one should I try to write plugins/additions for?

Things that Mephisto has that Typo does not:

Theme uploading and editing
You can subscribe to your own Overview feed, which includes upcoming as well as already published posts
Mephisto has sections rather than categories, which I think will help users think of ways of using Mephisto to manage sites that aren’t blogs
A Save As Draft Option
A Bucket to use as a temporary place to toss some assets while browsing in the asset manager

If you know of any cool Mephisto features that I haven’t listed here, please post them.

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