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We've installed a commercial edition of Movable Type with the Professional Pack so you can see how the design looks comparing to the standard templates. This is especially helpful if you're planning to have a blog, and would like an instant, professional design presence instead of the standard not so attractive design.

To compare the options:

http://www.movabletype.me
http://www.movabletype.me/classic

Here is a great idea - get Commercial Edition Movable Type with the Pro Pack, then customize that template to suit your needs. This will be a lot more affordable than hiring someone to design a blog completely from scratch.

Some of many requests we get here at FirmDot are to upgrade Movable Type 3 to Movable Type 4. What many customers don't know is Movable Type 4 uses a completely different template structure from MT 3, which means upgrading might break your existing blog. In addition to that, some Movable Type 3 plugins no longer work, or have been replaced by newer, MT 4 plugins.

Here is what we do - the recommended course of action is to setup a development environment on your hosting account with a duplicate copy of your Movable Type 3 blog. Then upgrade that development environment to Movable Type 4 and rebuild your blog. Then make a couple of test posts. If it works - Great! You can now safely upgrade your live environment. If your blog doesn't rebuild - it's time to re-code your templates to make them MT 4 friendly.

Please note that to take advantage of the new features of Movable Type 4, the templates will need to be converted (re-coded). Yes, it may be time consuming and cost you money, however in the long run you'll be glad you did. Everything is shifting towards Movable Type 4 and all previous versions will eventually not be supported by Six Apart.