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.
A List Apart, Tutorials, 13 KB, 1455 words
It's hard to identify an art movement while it's in progress. Like the ups and downs of the stock market, the defining elements of a movement may not become clear until you come out on the other side of the boom or bust. Even so, the Flash aesthetic has developed enough to be identified and examined.
Many of the common elements of Flash design have evolved because Flash facilitates certain aspects of animation, while making other aspects more difficult. The Flash aesthetic is born when techniques developed to deal with Flash's strengths and limitations are carried over into other media.
The majority of any art is developed by not beginners learning the form, nor...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 31 KB, 2285 words
One way to set up a private, password-protected weblog is by adding a .htaccess file to the directory in which the weblog resides. htaccess files can give you extra control over your server, allowing you to password protect directories, enable server side includes, generate custom error messages, and block users by IP address among other things. I've already described the fundamentals of .htaccess in another tutorial, see What is .htaccess? If you are setting up .htaccess for the first time, be sure to read this tutorial thoroughly.
1. Create .htpasswd
The first thing you need to do, before creating your .htaccess file, is to create a file called .htpasswd, which will hold the user...
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A List Apart, Tutorials, 10 KB, 1032 words
Any internet marketing professional will tell you, just as we will, that an effective Search Engine Optimization campaign can generate more traffic than an expensive banner-ad program, or costly and time-consuming pay-per-click methods. Some of the best methods of optimizing a website are ensuring that a page is not overly heavy in file size, maintaining a good content to code ratio, using lots of relevant content, and filling the page with as much text and links as you can without "spamming" the search engine spiders.
We're not going to cover all of the basics of XHTML and CSS. We assume that you have a basic, working knowledge of the two languages and have...
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A List Apart, Tutorials, 18 KB, 1700 words
Problem: Dreamweaver 4 falls short in its ability to produce well–formed, standards–compliant markup. Solution: You can easily harness Dreamweaver's two greatest strengths, its flexibility and its user community, to make it one of the best tools on the market for producing good XHTML. This article will tell you how.
With a few tweaks, hacks and extensions, you'll be able to produce sites that validate, and to clean up legacy pages. Set aside an hour or two, follow these directions, and fall in love with Dreamweaver all over again.
What this article does not do
This article does not show how to tweak Dreamweaver to produce standards–compliant...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 27 KB, 1534 words
Chad Everett has released a plugin called MT-Approval that presents an effective way to combat the comment spam brought on by spam bots that make up 99% of the comment spam most Movable Type users experience.
MT-Approval requires MT version 3.1 or higher.
MT Approval works by requiring that a comment contain an "approval hash" - a list of data that is generated in the comment form by a new template tag called <$MTApprovalHash$> on the comment preview template. Spam bots don't use the form on the preview template; therefore they are missing the hash when they try to post the comment directly to the comment.cgi and thus their comments never post.
MT Approval requires that you force a preview...
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Staggernation, Plugins, 15 KB, 1392 words
This Movable Type plugin implements a set of template tags for displaying text in multiple columns. Your text will be broken up into approximately equal portions, and the HTML formatting you specify (i.e. a table cell) will be repeated once for each portion.
Installation
To install the Columnize plugin, upload the file Columnize.pl to the plugins directory within your Movable Type directory. If you do not already have a plugins directory, create one before uploading the file. For more information about Movable Type plugins, see the documentation.
Contact
Please address questions, comments, bug reports, feature requests, interesting usage examples, etc., to mtplugins [AT] staggern...
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 34 KB, 2276 words
02.28.2005
TypePad UK Launches
We're proud to announce today that TypePad has launched in the UK. Though it was our least strenuous language translation ever, we're proud to have another country-specific offering to complement our current services in Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Spain, and The United States.
Posted by anildash in TypePad at 10:46 AM | Permalink | Trackback (0)
02.27.2005
Dreamforce, blogs for the Salesforce.com community
Salesforce.com is one of the most popular hosted business applications, with an active community of users and developers. One of the ways that they're keeping in touch with these diverse...
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A List Apart, Tutorials, 31 KB, 3981 words
An unauthorized companion to the Online Style Guide of the Branch Libraries of The New York Public Library
XHTML is the standard markup language for web documents and the successor to HTML 4. A mixture of classic (HTML) and cutting–edge (XML), this hybrid language looks and works much like HTML but is based on XML, the web's "super" markup language, and brings web pages many of XML's benefits, as enumerated by the Online Style Guide of the Branch Libraries of The New York Public Library.
If you want your site to work well in today's browsers and non–traditional devices, and to continue to work well in tomorrow's, it's a good...
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 16 KB, 447 words
We're glad to announce an update to the StyleCatcher plugin announced last week. StyleCatcher 1.01 fixes a number of little bugs, offers some helpful documentation in the README file about how to get started, and introduces a cool new feature: The Greasemonkey Style Installer.
StyleCatcher is designed to be able to retrieve styles from any style repository that follows a few simple conventions we've defined, and we'll be publishing documentation for how you can host your own style repository. But to get started, you can test this new functionality with our own Movable Type style library.
Our goal was to make switching styles as automatic as possible. So, if you're using Movable Type...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 34 KB, 2704 words
This tutorial is written by LMT guest author Sarah Hughes of This Chick (aka Maddy in the MT Forums).
Many customizations for Movable Type call for using PHP scripts that require that your pages have a .php extension rather than a .html or .htm extension.
PHP is a server-side scripting language which involves a) the server looking at your pages for a PHP script, b) running the script, and c) outputting the results to the page. This is called "parsing". In order to successfully use PHP in your pages, you need to ensure that your account on your webserver is set up to parse your pages for PHP scripts. This feature is pretty standard these days, but check with your webhost before...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 29 KB, 1025 words
There are several ways to make your life easier whilst having fun with HTML markup and CSS design.
Learning, the fun way
When I first tinkered around with HTML and CSS, I was a bit unsure and un-inspired as to what to do, but I employed a technique that some may frown upon. Using a variety of tools, I took a peek at stylesheets that had produced something I like. I didn't steal them but rather learnt from them on how to do such and such a thing. I would recommend trying this out as it is a hands on way to learn what various bits of CSS code do - and its much nicer to see it in action done the right way.
Sidebar Panels
If you use Mozilla/Firefox as your browser, you are in luck. EditCSS and...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 36 KB, 2815 words
Updated. Originally posted April 3, 2005.
If you are using a MySQL database and your blog is PHP enabled (see Converting to PHP), you can use PHP scripts to pull blog data from your database to add customizations to your blog. For example, say you would like to have on your sidebar a quote, randomly pulled from a selection of quotes, with a new quote displayed every time you refresh the page. You can accomplish this by creating a separate weblog for quotes, then using a simple PHP script to pull the data from your MySQL database, and using a PHP include to put the script results into your main weblog page.
PHP scripts are a level of difficulty up from Movable Type, and require...
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MezzoBlue, Tutorials, 17 KB, 1165 words
Oh, the fun to be had with Unicode.
Unicode, for those still unfamiliar, is a universal character encoding standard, jointly developed by a consortium with dozens of corporate and individual members around the world. The Unicode character set currently tops out at over 70,000 characters, and contains character sets from around the world, in both modern and ancient forms.
A bit more background follows, and then some usage analysis. Interspersed throughout this article are various Unicode characters; itâs highly unlikely that your browser/OS knows what to do with all of them. So unless you're running Safari, click on any set to view an image-based equivalent (which is a...
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 58 KB, 5621 words
08.31.2005
Simple Example Templates for Movable Type 3.2
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...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 33 KB, 1508 words
UPDATE: I had pulled out the functionality to check spelling with this toolbar, well I've put back the functionality. Just download the quicktags.js file that coressponds to your version of MT again and re-upload it. A new button called "Dict." will appear that will query a highlighted word to dictionary.com !
Please go to the MT 2.x instructions to fix a problem with the Quicktags not aligning properly.
This tutorial will allow you to have the Quicktags I described in my previous entry but is not restricted to MT 3.01D.
The files you will need:
Quicktags.js
The MT 2.x Version | The MT 3.x Version
Upload the quicktags js file to your staticwebpath - ie the same folder than...
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A List Apart, Tutorials, 17 KB, 2012 words
Despite the enormous enthusiasm XML has aroused in fields from literate programming to database management to business interchange, it has so far mostly missed its original target, the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C) designed XML for the web, but its early promise has been held up by the lack of a few key standards - notably XLink, its hypertext link mechanism - and limited browser implementation. XML has barely moved out of the starting gate as a medium for web development.
Fortunately, new standards and new browers are finally making it possible for web developers to take XML seriously. While there are still obstacles, XML is finally reaching the...
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A List Apart, Tutorials, 17 KB, 1840 words
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the keeper of the specifications for all the technologies on the web. As a web designer, you might have visited their site ( w3.org) to find the answer to a question about XHTML, or to find out more about a new technology like XSL Formatting Objects or Scalable Vector Graphics.
So you go to the specification, and almost immediately retreat in utter confusion. “This,” you think, “is totally unreadable.” Actually, it is readable - if you know one key piece of information.
A Specification is not a User Manual
The Bible was not meant to be read, but interpreted.
- attribution unknown
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A List Apart, Tutorials, 25 KB, 3281 words
What are web documents made of, anyway? Sugar, spice, and everything nice?
In fact, they're nothing more than Source. For all of the inspiration, thought, and sweat that might go into a page, it is merely a mess of characters that happens to contain a lot of brackets.
After five and a half years of actively building pages, it's occurring to me that a lot of developers haven't figured this out.
What I see is not what they get.
Is this the anguished moaning of an old fart? It certainly is.
As with the plaintive cries uttered by all old farts, this one also contains a nugget of wisdom: while at first you may succeed by the power vested in your tools, you...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 33 KB, 2011 words
Introduction
Movable Type is the premier weblog publishing platform for businesses, organizations, developers, and web designers. Powerful customization gives you control over everything you publish and the elegant interface keeps things simple and clear.
Features
• Unlimited Blogging
Movable Type offers the ability to publish an unlimited number of blogs quickly and easily through a single installation of the application. And the platform supports posting by as many authors as you need, with no limit on the numbers of entries, comments, or TrackBacks the system...
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