26 Oct, 2002
Posted by: kristine In: MT hacks
Is your Monthly Archive list getting kinda long in your sidebar? Would you like to be able to show and hide it easily, with a few of the months still showing? Someone on the MTForums asked about this today, and I figured it out and thought I'd share it here. The javascript for expanding/collapsing is […]
23 Oct, 2002
Posted by: Christine In: Bookmarks
If you have an RSS feed and you are using MT, then you should note that your feed may not be valid. However, you can quickly fix it using the instructions on this site! [via Q Daily News]
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22 Oct, 2002
Posted by: kristine In: CSS
Sharing some favorite CSS bookmarks for you all, since I spent some time finding them again this weekend while helping someone on the forums!! There are a wide variety of CSS/Table Free layout resources on the web, with tips for developing sites that work well in cross-browser tests. Some are just test sites for learning […]
22 Oct, 2002
Posted by: kristine In: MT hacks
Someone asked about this on the MT forums, and I really liked how the answer turned out, so I thought I'd add it over here. Some weblogs have a specific set of categories and would like to divide up the index page in columns to help segragate the posts. One such blog is BlogCritics. Other […]
22 Oct, 2002
Posted by: Jennifer In: Bookmarks
Robyn found a great new referral script from Textism. See it working here or here. [thanks for the heads up Robyn!]
15 Oct, 2002
Posted by: kristine In: MT hacks
When Movable Type came out with version 2.2, it added a feature for showing the way information on blogs linked together called Trackback. This added a whole great new set of options to the blogging software. With the new version 2.5, Trackback is enhanced by an auto-discovery tool. Auto discovery allows you to link to […]
15 Oct, 2002
Posted by: Jennifer In: Scripts
New script for you! The idea here is that you allow your users to vote for their favorite post in your blog. The top three (or two, or one – you set this) voted for posts show up in your sidebar(?) (or wherever you chose). The instructions are MT specific, but with some minor tweaking, […]
14 Oct, 2002
Posted by: Jennifer In: Bookmarks
Some royalty-free/free photo sites: intuitivmedia istockphoto
14 Oct, 2002
Posted by: kristine In: MT hacks
A lot of people using Skins on their blogs want all of the elements of their journal site to have skins on them. This made a lot of people use Individual Archives as popups so that they could be skinned, too. Unfortunately, with the advent of Trackback in MT2.2, there wasn't a good work-around to […]
14 Oct, 2002
Posted by: promoguy In: How to's
A PDA Page is a stripped down, no graphics version of your MovableType blog (for example, here is my pda version). The purpose is to allow mobile web devices such as PDAs (PalmPilot, PocketPC, Visor) and cell phones to view your Blog without having to download all of the images, blogrolls, and link lists that […]