The Six Apart Professional Network, which launched with the release of Movable Type 3.1, has become our home for updates on tutorials, documentation, and general news about what's happening with Six Apart. In addition to the mailing list (monitored by our own staff, including the developers of Movable Type), we've just released one of our first tutorials to the public.

Written by Brad Choate, who created Movable Type 3.1's Smarty-based dynamic publishing system, the architecture overview covers everything you need to know to get up to speed with this powerful new set of features. And the Professional Network gives us a chance to let Network members shine as well, as...

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Doug Bowman of StopDesign has posted an in-depth tutorial, complete with downloadable templates and screenshots of the end result, explaining how to create a beautiful and functional photo gallery using Movable Type. The results are astounding.

It's nice to see that one of the tools used to help build the gallery is Photon, which Doug discovered here on the Professional Network. We've also got an overview post listing techniques for working with photos in Movable Type.

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We've just released Movable Type 3.11, which fixes a few bugs that have popped up in certain configurations. It's a recommended update for all Movable Type users.

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Six Apart has announced a new release of Movable Type - MT 3.14 - which addresses a critical bug that was causing extreme server loads on MT installations. Six Apart recommends that all MT3 uers install the updated software. Have you found the tutorials at Learning Movable Type helpful? Please consider linking to LMT at http://www.learningmovabletype.com/ . Thanks!

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I mentioned earlier that I wanted Movable Type 3.1. Earlier today I successfully installed it, so now danandsherree.com is driven by Movable Type 3.11.

I haven't gotten subcategories set up yet, or any of the other nifty new features. I did get the TypeKey comment system working, though.

If you found this article useful, please consider supporting this site through a donation.

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Courtesy of our own Heiko Hebig in Germany comes another good example of the international reach of the talented Movable Type community. First up is Jörg Petermann, who runs einfach-persoenlich.de. Famed for work such as his Movable Type cheat-sheet, it's a must-read for the latest news and updates.

Another popular site among Professional Network members in Germany is Manuela Hoffman's Pixelgraphix. In addition to its beautiful design, it's a first class resource for German speakers who want to keep up to date.

We pride ourselves on having people from dozens of countries participate in our Professional Network community; If you'd like to join, you can sign up now.

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July 2003

07.23.2003

Movable Type Meetup

Looking for a way to hang out with other Movable Type users in real life? To talk about the writing on your sites, weblogs in general, or just a chance to meet interesting new people who have something to say? Well now there's a way. The folks at Meetup have added a Movable Type Meetup where you can sign up and pick a venue for the Meetup to be located.

The first Movable Type Meetup is scheduled for Monday, August 11 at 7 pm, and future...

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Professional Network member Kevin Shay doesn't just keep busy by writing for McSweeney's or Modern Humorist, he's busy writing entire new plugin options for Movable Type.

Kevin's latest (and most impressive) addition to his stable of Movable Type plugins is BigPAPI. The amusing name belies some seriously powerful functionality: BigPAPI lets you transform any part of Movable Type's user interface programmatically, or if you want a soundbite: "server-side Greasemonkey for Movable Type".

With BigPAPI in place, you can manipulate the entire experience of working with Movable Type, creating your own plugins that layer on top of BigPAPI with custom functionality. As Kevin shows,...

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Movable Type 3.1 launched today, with a host of new features including dynamic pages, subcategories, post scheduling, and more. You can hop over to the Movable Type site to find out more or just get it now.

Once you've got 3.1 up and running, you'll want to grab the Developer's Contest Plugin Pack, full of great new features that build on Movable Type's plugin architecture. If you'd like to hear more of Mena's take on this launch, you can check out Mena's Corner, where she offers up some insights on what version 3.1 means to us at Six Apart.

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October 2003

10.15.2003

Moving Forward with Movable Type

As many of you who maintain public weblogs with Movable Type know, there's an increasing problem with comment spam on many weblogs, and we've discussed some of the ideas for how we'll be dealing with the problem in the future on our company weblog. While we're working on integrating these spam protection techniques into Movable Type and our recently-launched TypePad service, you can protect your site in the mean time by trying...

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Anil sent a message out a week ago or so asking people about the impact MT has had on our lives. Here's my story...

I started LMT primarily as a way to keep track of what I was learning while customizing and updating my recipe blog. I created Simply Recipes as a way to document my family's recipes while my parents were still alive and healthy and able to show me how to make all the wonderful things they made for us growing up. Last December I got a call from Mike Dunne, Food Editor of the Sacramento Bee, asking for an interview. Mike's article was published in January and my parents and I were featured on the front page of the food section that week. Complimentary publicity is...

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10.18.2002

MT & TrackBack in Technology Review

November's issue of MIT's Technology Review contains an article about backlinking -- as well as a mention of TrackBack and some quotes by us. The article is currently premium content, but the author, David F. Gallagher has informed me that it will most probably be available for free some time in the next week.

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10.08.2002

Version 2.5 and a birthday

Read what we've got to say on the one-year birthday of Movable Type. Then, please fill out a short survey and download version 2.5.

What's new in version 2.5?

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Movable Type is far more than blogging software, it is a publishing platform. And for developers, it offers a robust framework for building not just "plugins" but entire applications.

This is the first in a series of articles where we discuss how more complex applications can be built using the Movable Type Platform. Using the Media Manager plugin as an example we will share code samples, discuss the underpinnings of Movable Type’s architecture, and show how you can make the most of Movable Type as a software platform.

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Chris Vannoy has posted some simple Movable Type templates based on the new default templates in Movable Type, but with much of the XHTML structure stripped out so they're easier to read. As Chris explains in his following post, they're not designed to be used on an actual site, since the styling would be pretty ugly by default, but they're a useful basis for creating your own completely custom design if you just need a place to get started.

We'll be producing additional documentation about all the new abilities that templates and styles have in Movable Type 3.2, but this is a great place to start if you just want to see the basics of what a template can do.

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Version 2.63 of Movable Type is now released. This is a bug fix release, fixing various localization, XML-RPC, Postgres, and Creative Commons errors. This update is also recommended using MT for private weblogs; your IncludeBlogs and ExcludeBlogs settings will now be applied to the experimental mt-view.cgi script. If you are using 2.62 and not experiencing any problems, there is no urgent need to ugprade. If you are having problems with 2.62, the changelog lists the changes and fixes in 2.63.

If you hadn't yet upgraded to 2.6, see the Guide to Movable Type 2.6 for explanations of the above features, and for instructions on adding these features to your existing weblog if you...

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If you're interested in the XFN (XHTML Friends Network) specification, you'll want to give the MTFriends plugin a try. It's a great first step, and using Movable Type 3's new plugin architecture, it should be possible to expand into a full management screen to update your XFN information from within Movable Type.

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Over at Spaceship No Future, some indispensable notes on integrating a custom login system with Movable Type using the TypeKey API.

Through a combination of the official documentation for creating a drop-in authentication service for Movable Type, the tk PHP library from Stuart Parmenter, and the resources from Everything TypeKey, it's possible to use an existing login system in place of the central TypeKey service to authenticate commenters.

Some of the steps are specific to this particular installation, but the general concept should work well with any existing database which needs to be integrated into Movable Type's comment authentication.

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Six Apart has released Movable Type version 3.2. See the formal announcement here. HIghlights include: • It's a free update for any licensed user of MT 3.x • A $30 discount for personal users • All licenses support an unlimited number of blogs now • Excellent new spam protection • A system overview to manage all of your blogs in one place • Better comment and trackback management • New user manual and now the Knowledge Base is available to users of the free version as well • Several new styles

See highlights of the most useful and powerful new features in MT3.2.

Congratulations Jay, Brad, Anil, Ben, and everyone at Six Apart involved in this new release; it's beautiful! Have you found the...

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How was the design for this website created? And how much work was put into the website?

Answer

I have got used to designing a website in a graphic tool. In my case this means using Adobe Photoshop CS. After the graphical design was finished, I created HTML and CSS. I started with the files belonging to a standard installation of Movable Type.

Estimating the effort is rather difficult, as this was my very first Movable Type project. I had to do a lot of learning and much was found by trial and error. Based on today's knowledge such a website including design and conversion to HTML and CSS can be done in 2-3 days.

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Arvind of Movalog has just launched Planet Movable Type, a cool new aggregator that grabs a lot of our Six Apart company sites as well as feeds from members of our community and displays them all on one site. It's a great resource if you want to track a lot of the activity around Movable Type in one place.

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