I have a fairly simple piece of advice: If you chose to use Blogger as your blogging platform, do not purchase your domain through Blogger/Google (unless of course you know that you will never, ever, be moving that domain in the future). Should I explain more? Okay...

It is true, Google makes it very easy to map a custom domain name to a Blogger blog. They even setup Google Apps for Domains for you. So what is not to like?  The process for moving the domain to a different host and or registrar has got to be the worst registrar move I have ever seen, and I have lived through some hellish registrar moves (I am looking at you iPower).

Our Sports Blog, which is by far our biggest, is now running in Movable Type. This involved importing from Blogger using the BloggerImporter plugin. My test import actually worked better than the final one. This is because I did not realize that the import process did not create categories (so if you are going to do the same thing, just make your categories in MT first).

Just because we are no longer using Blogger for the Sports Blog does not mean Blogger users cannot still comment. Thanks to the wonders of OpenID, when you sign in to comment here just use your blog name: blogname.blogspot.com.

Hit the jump to hear some more technical issues involved in bringing a Blogger blog into MT.

Technically it is not the first thing to launch for BG Views, but it is the first to launch with content. We have a soft launch of our Housing Guide already, but this is the first real launch we have had, and it is the Editor-in-Chief's food blog.

I am still working out kinks here and there on the new dedicated server. But the blog seems to be running pretty well. Freddy can't believe how much easier Movable Type is to use over Blogger. Well, duh.