Everyone loves having a great looking site, but for most people who aren't well versed in the technical details of HTML and CSS, tweaking your blog's look isn't easy. Being able to easily pick a style from a rich library of choices is essential.

So, we made the move in Movable Type 3.2 to a new set of Six Apart standard styles that are shared with both our TypePad and LiveJournal services. There's an immediate benefit of being able to use any one of a number of existing styles. But in the future, with over ten million blogs sharing the same single set of styles and markup, there's going to be a new and rapidly expanding base of additional styles available that we think is really going to blossom.

And while we're very proud of the work that goes in to making an attractive style, we realize it can still take work to apply a design to your blog. So we've reduced the work of switching styles by making StyleCatcher, a new plugin that lets you change designs with just a few clicks, any time you want.

StyleCatcher is a plugin made exclusively for Movable Type 3.2 which enables you to easily download and install styles on your blog with just a simple URL. Even better, it maintains a library of all of your downloaded styles allowing you to switch between them — completely transforming the look and feel of your site — with only a few clicks. Plus, StyleCatcher can even retrieve styles from repositories other than our own Six Apart Style Library, so if you'd like to use themes that are shared elsewhere, you can do that just as easily.

We're proud to announce that Movable Type 3.2 is now available. This release improves upon what is already the most powerful blogging platform by offering a better experience at every step. This new version combines the strengths and innovations you have come to expect from Movable Type over the past four years, boosted by the addition of over 100 unique new features that will help your blogs truly shine.

Best of all, it's a free update for any licensed user of Movable Type 3.x. Personal users will be happy to find that the Free edition now offers unlimited blogs. And personal users who want a multi-user license and access to our famed technical support can now take advantage of a special $30 discount on our Basic and Unlimited editions.

Highlights of New Movable Type 3.2 Features:

• Vastly improved installation and upgrade
• Unlimited blogs for all
• Special $30 discount for Personal Edition
• All your blogs in one place
• The best community management
• Find what you need
• Smart new styles
• A new generation of plugins
• The best support in the business
• Professional backing

In addition to the features listed above, we've made enormous improvements in usability for every common task you perform while blogging, many of which we've described in our list of our 32 favorite features of Movable Type 3.2. What's more, the features that have made Movable Type the platform by which all blog tools are judged are better than ever: Static or Dynamic Publishing (no rebuilds!); Built-in support for multiple authors, blogs, categories, and templates; Automatic archiving and publishing of XML feeds; and better platform support for almost any common operating system or database.

So, how to get started? If you already purchased Movable Type, or downloaded the free version, you'll be able to download the new release for free from your Movable Type account. Otherwise, you can find it on the Pricing and Licensing page. As always, there is a free, unsupported personal version (did we mention unlimited weblogs?) which will satisfy the needs of a large number of personal users.

After that, make sure to follow the the installation and upgrade instructions in the user manual as there have been some significant changes and improvements to the process.

Want some more details on the features we've added, or need one of our cool new badges to tell the world you've stepped up to Movable Type 3.2? Keep reading for details...