I never said that changing your mod_rewrite (yes I do know what you are talking about) isn't a good solution, it most certainly is but think about it like this. You start off with b2 as is, you install it for your site, that's all good and done. Now you say you have to edit some settings etc to get the urls to work properly. Alright fine, assuming your host lets you do that (I am sure most do). Well you just did something that not every team in FIRST can do but kudos to you except now many other teams that don't know how to do this will already be affected.
Now you have a site with good urls, but it still uses some tables for layout of the site which you now have to change if you want to have good standards related site design. Though using tables is fine by w3c.org, it's still not a good way of laying out content unless you have tabular data. Now that's another thing which some FIRST teams may not know how to do but it's not too big.
So now you have something that is very very comparable with MT but the fact is you just wasted time to create something that was already existant. In the end you get the same result but my point was that MT default config is perfect in every way for search engine placement. So you can use b2 since you are familiar with it but please do not think that everyone else is as technologically savvy as you are. Sure I generalized that dynamic pages are worse than static but there is reason to my claim. Once you deal in a professional web enviroment you will learn that it becomes easier to teach people a tool that is close to perfect instead of making one that is.
One last thing about b2, it still doesn't have the notification system builtin which is another reason I suggest teams not to try it out and the absolute worst thing about it is you have to install a fresh copy each time you want to add a blog, this again is very unproductive.
With all that being said this thread is basically dead to me so please dont' expect a response to anything else. People now have more than enough information to pick what they believe to be best.
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