Likelihood to Recommend Is your business an enterprise level business that has more than a half dozen different content types? If so, then you might want to use a dedicated CMS rather than Movable Type. Movable Type is best used on small / medium sized businesses and is not the best solution for a full-fledged CMS. If you're using your content for something other than just displaying a website, then it's probably not for you. Movable Type works great for news/blogging sites. In fact, Daring Fireball, one of the most popular Apple-centric blogs is using Movable Type as its publishing platform.
Read full review TemplateToaster has the best features which include: BOOTSTRAP 3 support, W3C compliance, all devices and all browsers compatibility, clean and concise code generation, and extensive designing options. A big pack of sample templates comes free with software installation, and all the designing options have been provided as per the latest web design trends. Templates made in TemplateToaster make clients say, “wow, it’s amazing”. TemplateToaster is a designing tool as well as a development tool. In short words, it provides a GUI for designing templates, after the accomplishment of designing, the template can be exported into a fully-fledged web template, which is ready to use as a website design.
Read full review Pros Easy to use straight out of the box, very user friendly with an intuitive interface. Great for team use where there are multiple editors and writers fixing and editing each other's works. It's easy to track who last made the latest edits. Stellar support team and system. I've found that Moveable Type's support system is generally more responsive and helpful than WordPress. Read full review Advanced designing features and using these advanced features very easily e.g. Bootstrap 3 support that makes flawless responsive templates. Encapsulated all the major designing trends with respect to particular CMS. Optimized code is produced for every theme/template as such the coding standards are perfectly followed by this software. All WordPress themes made with this software pass the Theme Check test. Because of W3C compliance it ensures consistency of websites over the web. HTML5 and CSS3 also ensure better look of designs on small screens. Apart from making web templates, one can make full fledged websites too. TemplateToaster allows making static websites with YouTube video inclusion. It has inbuilt FTP, so that user can easily move its website to the server. An amazing and exclusive feature it provides is the option to draw custom widget/module/ block area. Read full review Cons Especially on the older versions, the limited number of well-developed third-party plugins is problematic for efficiently developing a well-functioning website. Versions of movable type which didn't allow pages to be constructed were difficult to create continuity in design and easily editable pages for our editors. The installation process could be simplified to make it easier for those new to a CMS to install. Read full review It is not available for MAC operating system. Read full review Likelihood to Renew I think there are still improvements to be made. I haven't tapped in to the full functionality of the CMS yet but the rating I give it now is only based on what I've been able to use it for
Read full review Alternatives Considered Movable Type can be compared to WordPress. It's easy to use, and I would say Movable Type is actually more user-friendly.
Read full review No, I never used any other similar software, its completely a new experience
Read full review Return on Investment Provided a blogging platform when we needed one. Helped us compare other blogging platforms as a baseline for what minimums we require and what we don't want. Users often refused to use Movable Type and would go around our official system in order to use my more friendly software. Read full review TemplateToaster returns full value of money. It helps in finishing my projects ahead of time, hence I can finish more projects in less time. In other words, it helps in increasing my efficiency, which brings monetary benefits to me. Read full review ScreenShots TemplateToaster Screenshots