Results
If the result list is too large, please consider these hints
- Reduce the number of websites.
- Add more keywords.
- Use quotes for building terms from keywords. For example, the phrase banner image searches for all articles containing both words. However, "banner image" searches for the exact two-word phrase.
Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 18 KB, 340 words
Here are some fun and useful weather utilities you can easily add to your weblog:
1. Weatherpixie
Weatherpixie is a small bit of javascript code that you can place in your sidebar that generates a graphic showing the local weather. You determine the location for the weather report and choose from a selection of pixie images. Place the javascript from www.weatherpixie.com in the sidebar sections of your Main Index or archive templates.
2. WeatherForYou.com
Enter a city and state or zip code to get your local weather. On the results page on the left hand side, scroll down to "Weather for Websites" in the sidebar. Click on that link to get instructions on how to put the...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 18 KB, 802 words
The default main index page of a Movable Type weblog displays entries made in the last 7 days. You can change this number by entering a different number in the weblog config preferences.
lastn If you keep the default setup, you may notice that if you don't post for a while (more than 7 days) your main weblog index page becomes blank - no entries. To change the setup so that the weblog displays the last 7 entries instead of entries in the last 7 days you need to add a lastn attribute to the MTEntries tag.
Changing <MTEntries> to <MTEntries lastn="7"> in the Main Index template will cause the index page to display the last 7 entries. Adding the attribute lastn="10"...
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Six Apart Pronet Plugin Directory, Plugins, 10 KB, 41 words
This plugin (formerly BookQueueToo) allows you to manage a list of books, CDs, DVDs, or other media in a list, search Amazon for new items to add to your reading list, and publish the list on your blog.
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Learning Movable Type, News, 18 KB, 237 words
The new Movable Type 3 Bible is now shipping. Available at Amazon.com. From the book description:
If Movable Type can do it, you can do it too.
Prepare your Web server and install Movable Type Set up and configure a weblog, using archives and categories to create a more sophisticated site Add visual elements with photos and graphics Design a weblog with templates and use template tags Establish communication among sites using trackback pings Add search capabilities and import content from other blogs Develop Perl-based plug-ins to enhance Movable Type Configure Movable Type to receive and manage comments from site visitors
Links: Author Rogers Cadenhead discusses the MT3 Bible...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 17 KB, 529 words
In MT versions 2.661 and earlier, there is an icon and link for "Set Up Bookmarklets" on the main menu weblog edit page. In MT3.x, the name "Bookmarklets" has been changed to "QuickPost". In this tutorial everything that describes how to use bookmarklets can be used to describe how to use quickposts.
What is a bookmarklet and how do you use it in Movable Type?
A bookmarklet is a small bit of Javascript code that you can place in your browser favorites or bookmarks. Whenever you want to use the functionality of that code you can click on your browser bookmark for it. There are lots of bookmarklets available for all sorts of uses. In Movable Type, there is a bookmarklet available...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 18 KB, 427 words
There's a great repository of buttons at gtmcknight.com.
You too can create a custom button for your site with Kalsey's Button Maker.
Here's one for Learning Movable Type:
If you would like to add a Learning MT button and link to your site please host the image on your own server. (You can download it from this page by right-clicking over the image and selecting "Download Image to Disk" or "Save Image As".) After you upload the image to your server you can use this code to add the link to LMT:
<a href="http://www.learningmovabletype.com/"><img src="http://www.your_web_site/path/to/images/button.png"></a>
Note: if all you want is a link to...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 17 KB, 463 words
Updated September 20, 2004
If you are new to Movable Type and/or weblogs you may have encountered the term Permalink and wondered (as I did when I first read the term), what the heck is that?
A permalink is the permanent identifier to a specific weblog post or article. On Movable Type, a Permalink is usually a link to an entry's unique web page. The default archiving set-up in Movable Type includes date-based archives and individual archives. By default the permalinks are set up to link to an entry's individual archive page. You may see permalinks listed on many Typepad sites (like this one from Art Addict:
Clicking on the Permalink link will take the viewer to the page devoted...
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 15 KB, 294 words
This week, The New York Times announced TimesSelect, a subscription service where they'll be making their editorial content available. As is to be expected, it's prompted a lot of reactions from bloggers worried about whether they'll continue to be able to keep linking to articles in the Times, as well as questions about the ongoing influence that the Time will have if some of its content is behind a paid barrier.
Perhaps lost in the shuffle is one of the more interesting subtleties of the TimesSelect service, as pointed out by PaidContent in their interview with Martin Nisenholtz of Times Digital:
"We want to create a second robust revenue stream," he explained, filling me in on some...
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 13 KB, 83 words
Steve Outing of Poynter Online says, " On Group Blogs, the Writers Come First". Steve's pointing out a design shortcoming in many group blogs, which list an author's name at the bottom of the post. While it's a subject that could certainly be debated, being clear about authorship of posts is an important consideration when designing a weblog with multiple authors.
Trackbacks:
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 15 KB, 354 words
Suppose you change the name of a file. But instead of deleting the old file that is on your server (that may have many sites already linked to it) you want to forward anyone who goes to the old file URL to the new one.
One way to do this is to place a Meta Refresh tag in the html header section of the file that you want to forward. The tag looks like this:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.yourblog.com/archives/name_of_entry.html">
content="3 means that when someone goes to the old file, it will take 3 seconds to be forwarded to the new file. You can change this number to be more or fewer seconds, down to zero. Note that if...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 21 KB, 714 words
The new style sheet and templates in MT3.2 can be daunting to the non CSS expert. Changing the position of the sidebar from the right to the left shouldn't be so difficult. Once understood, it is a bit easier to do.
Changing the Sidebar Position
The MT3.2 stylesheets and templates are designed to have the columns laid out in order, starting with the column named "alpha". The columns, in order are alpha, beta, gamma (if you have a 3-column layout), and delta (a hypothetical fourth column that one could create). If you change sidebar position from right to left, the order of the columns still needs to be the same on your index and any archive templates where you have placed a...
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 14 KB, 157 words
If you're Perl-fluent amd looking for a cool little tool to work with XML data, check out the XSH command-line interface. As described in this DevX article:
Enter XSH, an open source command-line XML shell that lets you interactively query and manipulate XML data, simplifying development and testing of XML query and manipulation code. Since XSH is written in Perl, its syntax resembles Perl syntax, a boon if you are already familiar with Perl. XSH even lets you write Perl code and access XML data structures as if they were ordinary Perl variables. In addition to Perl, XSH gives you XSLT capabilities such as XPath querying, enabling you to quickly and succinctly express complex queries...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 17 KB, 241 words
Your Blogger Code is: B6 d+ t+ k s++ f- i o+ e l c-- ( decode it!)
What will they come up with next? According to The Blogger Code, "Geeks have one. So do hairy gay men and their admirers. Isn't it time bloggers have a code to describe themselves as well?". Want to understand someone's blogger code? Check the decoder.
Hat tip to Arvind of Movalog.
Copyright © 2004-2005 Elise Bauer. All Rights Reserved (unless otherwise specified).
Has this tutorial been helpful? Please consider linking to Learning Movable Type at http://www.learningmovabletype.com/ . Thanks!
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 19 KB, 405 words
This tutorial is written by LMT author Arvind Satyanarayan of Movalog. Tutorial cross posted on Movalog and LMT.
With the release of Movable Type version 3.2, Six Apart opted to not include the calendar feature that had been included by default in earlier versions. The reason for this is that calendars, with the days linking to blog archives, are resource intensive; they can significantly lengthen rebuild times. Six Apart has posted the code that was used in previous versions of MT. However, many users have found that simply copying and pasting the code as given doesn't yield a properly formatted calendar.
The following code will create a calendar that will be correctly formatted and...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 15 KB, 422 words
Yahoo allows people to easily add RSS newsfeeds into their user-customized My Yahoo portal pages. For publishers of RSS feeds, like almost every Typepad and Movable Type user, this means that you can easily let your readers add your feed to their My Yahoo page by simply clicking on a button.
Millions of people use My Yahoo pages to create their own customized view of the news they care about. Most people outside of the blogging community don't know what RSS is and tend to look cross-eyed when you try to explain it to them. Yahoo makes it very easy to reap the benefits of RSS without having to see funky looking files or download a newsfeed reader, yet another piece of software.
For those of us with weblogs...
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