<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head><title>Smashing Magazine</title><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><style media="all" type="text/css">@import "css/all.css";</style><script src="js/main.js" type="text/javascript"></script></head><body><div><a href="#main" class="skip-content"><span>skip to content</span></a></div><div id="pagewidth"><div id="header"><a href="/" class="logo">Smashing Magazine <em>We smash you with the information that will make your life easier. 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In fact, most popular engines out there.</p><p>For instance:</p><ul><li><a href="#">Expression Engine</a> is the first-class engine for professionals; if you'd like to achieve the highest level </li><li><a href="#">Movable Type</a> offers a simple and user-friendly user interface with enhanced WYSIWIG-Editor for quick and effective web-publishing. Serendipity includes not only "usual" weblog functions, but also a powerful </li></ul><h2>Classic Typefaces</h2><p>Classics of typography in a brief overview. You will find even more traditional typefaces on the site <a href="#">100 Best Fonts</a>, including history, development and related information.</p><h3>1. Helvetica</h3><ul class="font-list"><li><img src="img/image12.jpg" alt="image" /><p>Helvetica LT Std Bold</p></li><li><img src="img/image13.jpg" alt="image" /><p>Helvetica L T Std Bold Oblique</p></li></ul><h3>2. Helvetica Neue</h3><ul class="font-list"><li><img src="img/image14.jpg" alt="image" /><p>Helvetica Neue L T Std 85 Heavy</p></li><li><img src="img/image15.jpg" alt="image" /><p>Helvetica Neue LT Std 86 Heavy Italici</p></li></ul><p>Classics of typography in a brief overview. You will find even more traditional typefaces on the site <a href="#">100 Best Fonts</a>, including history, development and related information.</p><h2>Summary</h2><ul class="summary-list"><li>Mephisto offers an elegant and flexible solution you can use to publish the content effectively.</li><li>You can set the time and date you'd like Mephisto to publish a given article automatically.</li><li>Its simplicity and functionality makes Mephisto to a profound tool for both complex weblogs and corporate sites.</li></ul><h2>Resources</h2><ul class="resources"><li><a href="#">Mephisto Weblog Engine</a></li><li><a href="#">Mephisto Screenshots</a> <em>on Flickr</em></li><li><a href="#">Installing Mephisto</a></li><li><a href="#">Mephisto: Documentation</a></li><li><a href="#">Mephisto: Step-By-Step-Tutorial</a></li></ul><ul class="tags"><li><strong>Tags:</strong></li><li><a href="#" rel="tag">blog</a>, </li><li><a href="#" rel="tag">css</a>, </li><li><a href="#" rel="tag">development</a>, </li><li><a href="#" rel="tag">free</a>, </li><li><a href="#" rel="tag">publishing</a>, </li><li><a href="#" rel="tag">ruby</a>, </li><li><a href="#" rel="tag">tool</a>, </li><li><a href="#" rel="tag">weblogs</a></li></ul></div><div class="bookmarks"><ul><li class="reddit"><a href="#">submit</a></li><li><a href="#" class="rss"><span>rss</span></a></li><li><a href="#" class="del-icio-us"><span>del-icio-us</span></a></li><li><a href="#" class="digg"><span>digg</span></a></li><li><a href="#" class="technorati"><span>technorati</span></a></li><li><a href="#" class="some"><span>name</span></a></li><li><a href="#" class="furl"><span>furl</span></a></li><li><a href="#" class="blinklist"><span>blinklist</span></a></li><li><a href="#" class="magnolia"><span>magnolia</span></a></li><li><a href="#" class="mister-wong"><span>mister-wong</span></a></li><li><a href="#" class="advertise-with-us"><span>advertise-with-us</span></a></li></ul><p class="dropped">Dropped in: <a href="#">Developer's Toolbox</a> at August 17th, 2007 <a href="#" class="technorati"><span>Stumble it!</span></a></p></div><div class="pagers"><a href="#"><img src="img/banner2.jpg" alt="image" /></a></div><ul class="tabset"><li class="active"><a href="#">Comments</a></li><li><a href="#">Trackbacks</a></li><li><a href="#">Pings</a></li></ul><div class="comment-list"><ul><li><strong class="number">1.</strong><div class="top"><p><a href="#">Chris Poteet</a> (August 17th, 2007, 1:26 am)</p></div><div class="body"><p>as well came across this app recently. It does look quite promising, and after looking at WordPress all the time it's nice to see something different. I'm still a hard sell however to leave WP.</p></div><div class="bottom"><ul><li class="edit"><a href="#">Edit</a></li><li class="delete"><a href="#">Delete</a></li><li class="comment"><a href="#">Comment</a></li></ul></div></li><li><strong class="number">2.</strong><div class="top"><p><a href="#">Chris Poteet</a> (August 17th, 2007, 1:26 am)</p></div><div class="body"><p>as well came across this app recently. It does look quite promising, and after looking at WordPress all the time it's nice to see something different. 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