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.
Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 30 KB, 1587 words
2.1 (2002.05.02)
• Added webMaster, language, lastBuildDate, and pubDate to both RSS templates. • Added encode_html="1" to all RSS fields that didn't have it already. • Added Norwegian dates. • Added test for mt-check.cgi to determine whether we are running under cgiwrap or suexec. • Added a new global tag attribute encode_url (thanks to Scott Andrew LePera and others for the idea). • Changed the behavior of the publish flag in blogger.newPost; previously, if set to false the new entry would be saved as a draft. This was a bad idea, for...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 28 KB, 870 words
The default styles that come with MT are what is known as 'fixed' styles. This means that size of objects and their positions are fixed and are defined in pixels (px) This also means, no matter what a person's screen resolution, everything will be the same width and in approximately the same position. Now this may seem good but - especially with MT's default styles - looks bad depending on the screen resolution. Taking for example MT 3's default styles, on a 1280x1024 screen resolution, the weblog appears as quite a narrow bar that is centered on the screen - not very appealing at all.
The other option to 'fixed' designs is 'fluid' designs. A fluid design uses percentages when defining...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 26 KB, 526 words
Matthew writes
I am trying to make the side bar in Movable type to extend to the bottom of the page. I have gotten it to work in IE but not firefox. You can take a look at my site
Quite a few people ask me this question (you can see the problem in the screenshot -- click for larger view), and this problem was fixed in the default templates. It can be combatted in two ways.
CSS
Add the following to your stylesheet
#container:after, .content:after { content: "."; display: block; height: 0; clear: both; overflow: hidden; }
HTML
Alternatively, on every template that you have a sidebar, add the following code just before the end tag of the #container div
<div style="clear:...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 22 KB, 478 words
2.21 (2002.06.28)
• Very important bug fix to MySQL schema: Changed all *_created_on columns to the datetime type instead of the timestamp type. The latter could have very bad effects if used within the MySQL shell (although through MT's libraries it is not a problem). Thanks to shanson for finding this. • The plugin framework can now create container tags (thanks to Adam Kalsey for pointing out that it couldn't before). • Added encode_xml global tag attribute to escape special XML characters. • Changed default RSS templates to use encode_xml=``1'' rather than...
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A List Apart, Tutorials, 32 KB, 4130 words
This is a journey from six years of conventional web design practice to the way we'll build sites in the future. Only it's not set in the future. You're soaking in it.
From the beginning, we've done whatever we had to do to make our sites work in every browser. In the world of non-standard HTML Design, we bolt every word, every image into place by manipulating table cells.
And we solve problems by replacing them with new ones. Netscape 4 ignores the CSS {margin: 0;} declaration? Extend the BODY tag with the Four Horsemen of Non-Validation: LEFTMARGIN, TOPMARGIN, MARGINWIDTH, MARGINHEIGHT. IE4 doesn't fully support the CSS border property? Fake it by...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 22 KB, 750 words
Fortunately for those of use who use Movable Type, there are several folks who devote much of their free time to understanding, exploring, and extending the capabilities of MT, and are willing to share that knowledge with the rest of us.
Here's my roundup of good sites (in addition to LMT) to investigate while learning how to use Movable Type (I will add to this list over time): Movable Type Support Forums - The MT Forums should be your first stop for questions regarding Movable Type. Before posting, read this thread which will explain general rules of conduct and the best way to find answers. Generally, play nice, read the MT Manual (3.2) ( for 3.1 and earlier) first, and try a search...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 46 KB, 3451 words
This tutorial is written by LMT guest author Mike Everett-Lane of Ishbadiddle.
A Subject Index can give context to your posts and makes it easier for your readers to browse what you've written on specific topics. Unlike Categories, which are limited, top-down, and hierarchical, Subject tags are open-ended and limitless. While your blog's Category system is like the Table of Contents of a book, a Subject Index is like the book's Index, one that is constantly updated.
First, you might want to read my blog post on how the use of Subject Indexes can improve the organization of your blog. You can see it in action there as well as here on LMT. For instance, here's the index of all my subjects, and the index of all my posts on the subject of...
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 61 KB, 5098 words
12.22.2004
MT-Blacklist v2.03-beta
As part of the ongoing efforts against comment spam, Jay Allen has released Blacklist v2.03-beta. This release is designed to take advantage of the improvements in Movable Type 3.14, and the combination of the two is an excellent way to manage comment spam while not imposing too much of a burden on your web server.
If you're using an older version of MT-Blacklist, it's strongly recommended that you update to this new version. And just to review, MT-Blacklist, despite the name, MT-Blacklist offers a wide variety of techniques to manage or moderate comments or block spam, in addition to its namesake Blacklisting feature.
Posted by Anil in Plugins at...
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StyleMonkey, News, 14 KB, 51 words
Fixed a small error in the style sheets that was causing the 2 Column fluid desgins with the sidebar on the left to display a horizontal scroll bar with extra space on the right.
Posted by The Style Monkey at January 17, 2005 10:30 AM
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 37 KB, 2574 words
Updated June 12, 2005. Originally posted in Spring of 2004.
The default Movable Type installation automatically publishes RSS feeds for your weblog. The three formats supported are Atom, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0. You can find the templates associated with these syndication formats in the templates section of your MT edit screen.
The default RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 syndication feed templates for MT version 3.x produces a feed with the content in your MT entry body. The default Atom feed template produces a feed with both the entry body and the extended entry. The default RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 feeds in MT version 2.661 generated feeds with only the entry excerpt.
You may or may not want to...
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 52 KB, 4132 words
03.25.2005
InfoWorld review of Movable Type
InfoWorld has just published a review of Movable Type 3.15, with the ultimate conclusion that "Overall, Movable Type delivers a solid blogging experience." There's a useful overview of the platform's features, along with some legitimate points about what needs improvement, but we're just as glad to see users explaining why Movable Type is the right choice for them as well.
Posted by anildash in Press Mentions at 11:03 PM | Permalink | Trackback (0)
03.25.2005
Politicians with Permalinks
The Christian Science Monitor has a broad look at politicians using blogs to better communicate with their...
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Brad Choate, Tutorials, 100 KB, 3747 words
Things you probably didn't realize you could do with MT-Textile 2: • Hyperlinks for Amazon, IMDB and Google searches. For example (search term can be placed after the last ‘:', or will default to the hyperlinked text): • "James Bond":imdb:Sean+Connery becomes James Bond • "Tangerine Dream":amazon becomes Tangerine Dream • "Movable Type":google becomes Movable Type • ["MT plugins by Brad Choate":google:movable type plugin choate] becomes MT plugins by Brad Choate • Float images to the left and right; center stuff too: • !>/images/me.jpg! (floats...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 20 KB, 997 words
Updated September 23, 2004
Movable Type comes with a built-in capability for allowing your weblog visitors to easily send an email with a link to your entry by filling out a simple form. The one small catch is that spammers can take advantage of cgi email programs like this to send out spam. Ben Trott has made a few adjustments to the MT code in the most recent releases to help protect against these types of spammers. But the easiest way to take advantage of this useful utility while at the same time protecting yourself is to change the name of the mt-send-entry.cgi script. (See the reasons why here) The following are instructions on how to include Email to a Friend on your MT...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 21 KB, 296 words
SearchSortBy
The sort column for the search results. Using created_on will sort the entries by the authored on date; using title will sort the entries by title. This can be used with ResultDisplay to sort in either ascending or descending order.
Default value: created_on
Example: SearchSortBy title
Permalink
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 14 KB, 194 words
PC Magazine's Bill Machrone has published a great new column entitled I Blog/I Do Not Blog. In it, Bill examines how blog tools in general, and Movable Type in particular, can function as extremely powerful and flexible content management systems, without all the expense and overhead of traditional CMS applications. A good overview of the potential:
If you have a newsletter, a club or organization site, or an online publication for a niche audience, though, blog software is just about perfect. That's what I needed for a site I wanted to build: something with built-in reader commentary, RSS syndication, template-based article entry, and the ability to make style changes without having...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 21 KB, 354 words
0.04 (2001.09.27)
• Changed internal timestamp format so that timezone offsets are not recalculated on every rebuild. Changed from epoch time (seconds since 1970) to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS. • Added uneditable name of template to top of editing page for non-index templates; this limits possible confusion over which template you are actually editing. (Steven Jarvis) • Made MTCommentAuthorLink web links open in new window. (Steven Jarvis) • Bookmarklet Javascript now works in IE 5.5 (needed to use document.selection in that browser). (Caroline van Oosten de Boer)...
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Eat Drink Sleep MT, News, 20 KB, 983 words
I'm really curious - how long does it take you to write an entry to post on your site? I know this varies quite a bit based on the content of a site. I'm sure that if a site is about daily life (with several posts per day) it takes only minutes to write a new post; if a site is full of tutorials or how-to instruction it takes quite a bit longer to write a new post.
I probably spend at least 15 minutes on any entry. Brief movie and TV reviews, for example, don't take much typing time but once I add in proofreading, rewriting a sentence or two for clarity, and add some keywords and a category or two it all adds up. For a long entry, like Organizing Photos with Adobe Photoshop Elements, I will spend time over several days writing, editing and adding screenshots. All told, I probably spend 3-5 hours on longer entries like that! I'm a slow writer, I know....
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