A good thread on Ask MetaFilter about making sites that don't look like blogs, but are built with weblog tools. A good number of Movable Type-powered sites are mentioned, along with smart resources for doing the same yourself.

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einfach-persnlich Sideblog - Making sites that don't look like blogs - December 11, 2004 08:34 AMhttp://www.sixapart.com/pronet/2004/12/making_sites_th.html...

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PayPal's Developer Network blog (did you know it was powered by TypePad?) is offering a sneak preview of a new look for the PayPal home page. It's a great use of a blog to give their biggest supporters some inside information. [Update: They've now added a link to the new design on their homepage, but it's still good that they let developers know on the blog first.]

If you're interested in building on top of their APIs or platform, you can take a look at the PayPal Developer Network homepage, which offers sample code and a variety of documentation.

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Neil's Smaller World - New PayPal Home Page sneak preview - September 10, 2004 01:59 PMSneak preview of PayPal's...

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I may experience a bit of downtime or things may seem out of flux for a while (don't quite know how long) as my host shifts me to a new server and hosting package. Please bear with me !

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The "Warn/Die" plugin lets you control the Movable Type build process. The 'MTWarn' tag lets you output messages from your templates during the build process. These messages might be used for debugging purposes or might just be informational. The 'MTDie' tag lets you halt the build process.

Availability

You can download this plugin from here: mtwarndie-1_0.zip

Examples

<MTWarn>Building...

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Movalog has been nominated for the best science/technology IndiBlog. The IndiBlog Awards are publicly-chosen awards conferred upon bloggers from India or of Indian origin settled elsewhere. The winner of the best science/tech category wins a year's subscription to Typepad Plus.

Go vote for Movalog as the best science/tech Indian Blog.

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Ajaxify: Search Suggestions

The second plugin in the pluginset known as Ajaxify, this plugin adds a search suggestion feature to the Quicksearch box at the top when you search for entries, comments or trackback. There's very little to talk about this plugin but...

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Posted on 08/30/2005 | Permalink | Comments (9)

Ajaxify: EnhancedEntryEditing

UPDATE: EnhancedEntryEditing has been bumped up to v1.01 to fix a bug where popup windows wouldn't disappear after you were done with them. Grab the update, you only need to upload EnhancedEntryEditing.pl Ajaxify is a series of BigPAPI...

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Many generous people have created and shared web-based and desktop color utilities. I have used a number of these tools for web design and graphic imaging and found a couple I just can't live without.

The color tool I depend on most is ColorCache from Technology Lighthouse. ColorCache is a color picker, color schemer, scheme previewer, palette manager and more. Currently in version 3.x, it is free to download and use for 15 days, after which paid registration (worthwhile, IMHO) is required.

My second tool of choice is a brilliant Firefox extension, ColorZilla color picker, DOM inspector and all-around groovin' color gizmo. I love this (along with WebDev for FF) for working on MT...

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Blogs that have multiple authors sometimes have the need for a 'credits' page or something like that that lists everyone. This plugin allows you to do just that by providing a <MTAuthors> tag that Movable Type lacks. Continue reading for documentation and download link.

Availability

You can download this plugin here: mtauthors-1_32.zip

Installation

To install, place the 'authors.pl' file in...

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Related Entries Revisited. Adam Kalsey puts the power of MySQL full-text indexing and MT-SQL to work to provide a better "related entries" solution for Movable Type. A great example of how to use the <MTSQLEntries>

tag.

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Ajax Archive Drop Downs

In this thread, Gary highlighted how to have drop downs of archives that basically redirected to the appropriate page once an archive was chosen. With this tutorial, I'll take that one step further and use AJAX such that when you...

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Posted on 07/03/2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Yearly Archives

One feature I find lacking in MT is yearly archives. A yearly archive basically is just a page of twelve calendars - one for each month of the year - see mine in action here with permalinks to the days....

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Tom Werner's got a cool little service called Gravatar, which lets you display a unique icon next to the posts or comments of authors. Your icon is tied to your email address, so your unique picture can appear at any place that you comment, as long as Gravatar is enabled on the site. If you're interested in trying it out, there's even a Movable Type plugin for implementing the service on your weblog.

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simoncox.com sideblog - Gravatars - October 19, 2004 05:24 PMAvatars for blogs and probably other uses. Every time you post somewhere your avatar will follow you autmagically! ... Provided the blog you are posting to is playing along. Simoncox.com is now Gravatar...

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One subtle but powerful new feature in Movable Type 3.2 that we're excited about is the ability to define default templates for each new blog that's created on the system.

Once you've created the layout, styles, or feeds that you want published (or just tweaked the cool new designs we're providing), you can just save the templates in the new default template folder. Then, every time a new blog is created, it'll look exactly as you've designed. It's great for having a number of internal company weblogs that follow your design standards. And if you have a specific type of output defined, like a particular XML feed or a proprietary document format, those will automatically appear in each...

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A number of tools have recently launched that can extend the capabilities of the websites you use today, while making it simpler to test their functionality.

The first one that caught our eye is Piggy Bank, an effort from the Simile project being jointly conducted by the W3C, HP, and MIT.

Piggy Bank is a Firefox extension that extends the browser to allow it to navigate semantic content. Despite all the praise and critcisms for Semantic Web ideas, very few practical implementations have been created by which average developers can find out the potential of these technologies for themselves. Piggy Bank is a good way to combine and work with information from a large number of websites,...

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Jay Allen has released MT-Blacklist 2.0e. It is an emergency release so you will be facing bugs. If you want to see what 2.0e looks like before you install it, take a look at Neil's tour, althought a few versions old, the GUI has remained much the same !

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In this thread, Gary highlighted how to have drop downs of archives that basically redirected to the appropriate page once an archive was chosen. With this tutorial, I'll take that one step further and use AJAX such that when you select an archive, rather than redirecting to the corresponding archive page, the appropriate posts will just replace those currently shown. You can see a pretty basic example heremp;

First of all, here's the AJAX code that you'll need to put within your <head></head> tags <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- var xmlhttp=false; /*@cc_on @*/ /*@if (@_jscript_version >= 5) try { xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); }...

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Almost all my blogs have the "Set Each Template's Build Options Separately" option selected and the dynamic setting on my hundreds of templates is varied. I wanted to be able to see immediately which templates were and which templates were not rebuilt dynamically from the templates listing view. A screenshot of how this look is above (click for a larger view) Obviously, this hack is only valid for MT versions equal to or greater than 3.1

You will need your list_template.tmpl file. Find

<th width="20%"><MT_TRANS phrase="Build w/Indexes"></th>

and replace it with

<TMPL_IF NAME=DYNAMIC_CUSTOM><th width="10%"><MT_TRANS...

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We've just released our collection of Power Tools, a broad range of open source components and modules that make it easy to get, manipuate, and manage web data. Many of these components are new, and can be combined together to build cool apps like the Friends Aggregation Page that Ben described at the Emerging Technology Conference.

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einfach-persoenlich Sideblog - Power Tools for remixing blogs - March 20, 2005 11:51 AMSix Apart stellt eine Reihe von Power-Tools, die es einfach machen sollen, Web-Daten zu lesen, zu verndern und zu managen.

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Dynamic Publishing - Pros and Cons

Discussion cross posted on Movalog and Learning Movable Type One of the key features that Six Apart promotes about Movable Type is MT's ability to publish dynamically. What is dynamic publishing? And what are the benefits (and downsides) to dynamic...

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Posted on 05/28/2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Troubleshooting Smarty Errors

Tutorial cross posted on Movalog and Learning Movable Type If you move from static publishing to dynamic publishing in Movable Type, you may encounter a variety of confusing error messages in Smarty, the system...

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TypePad subscriber Fraser Beach gets a nice feature (and photo!) in the Toronto Globe and Mail, discussing how he uses his weblog to communicate with his audience on the web:

"Most real estate sites tend to be a lot of hype," says company broker Fraser Beach. "This is an attempt to have an informed dialogue with our visitors. It allows us to have a different level and style of contact with our clients and potential clients."

That sort of informed dialogue is what the weblog medium does best, and you can take a look at Toronto At Home, Fraser's weblog, to see exactly how he makes use of TypePad to grow his business. And be sure to check out the Recently Sold photo album, displaying...

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From molly.com, Blogging Grows Up tracks MT from the very start through the licensing debacle to where it is now - a few weeks away from 3.1 ! Unless you have a membership with Salon you won't be able to read the full article. Alternatively, you could go through three pages of ads to get a free day pass. If you're interested in how MT evolved this is a very interesting read !

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