Movable Type
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Comment Highlighting: Static or Dynamic
You’ve seen it before. An article gets hot and soon you have 50 to 60 comments attached to it. Getting in on the tail end of the conversation can be annoying with that many posts to wade through. So we create a handy little convention that will highlight (change the class of) the comments posted... Read More
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Dynamic Linked List Boxes: Categories and Entries
Movable Type is being used to store a list of classes, and we need to make those class titles available in a form field (class registration) as a dynamically linked list box. The user will be presented with two list boxes, the first with a list of categories, the second (which is disabled until a... Read More
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Six Apart is cool. So cool, in fact, that you probably don’t even realize it. Look at the official orange badge on their home page. Or look at the one below. Count the spikes on it. Go ahead. Six Apart is so cool.
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Be proud of your CMS! Here’s some larger badges to accompany the standard badges that 6A is offering: And one for my dark-sited friends (no white antialiasing around the edges) FIXED, thanks Dan:
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We waited a while for it, but it’s finally here. *much rejoicing* The beta testing went on for a while, but really it was worth the wait. I’m rarely opposed to waiting for a program to get better; and I wasn’t disappointed. The end product is a versatile program that adds both strength and flexibility... Read More
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So Thursday AM is “The Big Day”, the day when we all get to experience Movable Type 3.2, sans beta. My entries are slow-in-coming for a few days while I launch my brand new design site. The current site is truly ghastly. I’m also currently slogging my way through 12 rounds in the ring with... Read More
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Less Is More One key principle of interface design is not to overload your users by dumping every choice available on your site right there on the front page. Users don’t mind drilling for information that needs to be drilled for. Important stuff should be readily and easily accessible, and category archives falls into the... Read More
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Somewhere in the wee small hours of the morning, the 6A team decided against a final release of 3.2 and decided to give the world one final(?) beta. Not that I’m complaining at all. A few days wait in exchange for an even rock-solid-er release is perfectly fine with me. As Mr. Franklin once said,... Read More
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Sorting Categories Any Way You Please
Strange adding a category called categories… but I digress. Two Roads Diverged… I’ve been working on a new blog in which I want to sort the categories in order other than alphabetical. Now, there is an quick and ugly solution, and there is a time-consuming and beautiful solution. First, we’ll look at the ugly way... Read More
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s ugly, but boy, it’s never been a more welcome read. That’s right, the new Movable Type 3.2 User’s Manual has just been released. You know what that means… MT 3.2 Final is just around the corner! The manual is long, but most importantly, it’s USEFUL. About the only thing I... Read More
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Stylesheet: Waters of the Hudson
You should just be able to copy and paste this style sheet into the master style sheet of your blog and you’ll get a nice little site refurb, on the house:
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Module Aggregation David Raynes’ MultiBlog is a must have plugin for anyone interested in content aggregation, but it’s uses are far greater than just sharing text. Take for instance storing a master stylesheet in your main blog and sharing it with other blogs (i.e. a FAQ blog) on your system to keep your look consistent.... Read More
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MT3.2 beta 4 Template Refresh Bug
This is more of a typo than a bug. When refreshing your default Main Index template, it pulls in the code from the default template directory of your MT installation, and the Main Index default template adds an additional `>”` to the link to atom.xml feed. Removing the extra characters in the main_index.tmpl of your... Read More
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Well, in the immortal words of Shang Tsung, “It has begun.” The purpose of this site is not to be a definitive source on all things Movable Type. If you want that you should probably visit Movalog or Learning Movable Type. My goal here is to chronicle my wrangling with Movable Type, and provide a... Read More
