Saturday: Typepad pricing, Rechargeable batteries

Rechargable Battery Performance
I just bought a bunch of Rayovac rechargeable batteries and wanted to read up on their performance before opening the packaging. Consumer Reports has their rechargable battery test ratings.

Typepad for my future wedding website
After I finish my degree, I'm going to start wedding website as business project and create a website using Typepad, because their pages are easy to edit. Here's Typepad pricing page. The pro plan is $15/month and includes the "total design customization". The plus plan for $9/month does not include the design customization. This a must-have because I would have a modified index template, and not show any blog style entries on the homepage. The pro plan essentially has everything I would need to get the site up and running quickly.

I also read up on Movable Type, and this would be better for a large scale site, since it's an entire CMS system with some incredible features. Movable Type would not be best for the wedding site because it's a platform that runs on your server. Moveable Type Pro is available free for "power bloggers" and the business license is $400. If I ever create a website geared to make it big, I would definitely use Movable Type. Here are the installation instructions for Linux/Unix. It looks like it will work with 1and1. This blogger gives some pointers (from 2003) on how to install MT using 1and1. He gave me hope.

. . .designed for bloggers, design and development firms, and small and medium-sized businesses, and has all of the features of Movable Type plus social networking features, custom fields for extending your content management system, and new Professional Templates that help you get up and running with a beautiful website quickly.