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05 Aug, 2002

How to make links open in the sidebar

Posted by: Jennifer In: How to's

Use this only where appropriate please (like to show a list of links, etc. etc.) if you did this with all your links, it could get v. v. annoying. LOL! It's a very simple piece of code that does this: <a href="javascript:void(_search=open('http://www.somesite.com/PAGE/YOU/WANT/TO/OPEN.htm','_search'))"> update: also, on the page you have opening in the sidebar… if you […]

23 Jul, 2002

setting up MySQL database

Posted by: kristine In: How to's

Because there is the new option of using MySQL to store your Movable Type database, I wrote up a short tutorial for how to get MySQL ready for the conversion. This is particularly for people who are using CPanel (I'm using version 4) as their control panel on their server.

02 Jul, 2002

Basic PHP tips, substr function

Posted by: Lynda In: How to's

I know I haven't been posting around these parts lately, but that doesn't mean I haven't had my hands dirty with some good old fashioned PHP. Most of what I've been doing is for pMachine (although I'd love to get into the new mySQL version of MT!) which is already documented on my site. However, […]

24 Jun, 2002

daily graphics

Posted by: kristine In: How to's

Would you like to add a different graphic title for each day? Here's a great way to do this with Movable Type and Greymatter.

19 Jun, 2002

MT tutorials and code

Posted by: kristine In: How to's

After several requests for tutorials on the MT boards, I've put together some tutorials and codes for Movable Type on a few different topics. These could be modified to fit other blogging software or just normal page designs as well. The first is a 3 column layout. It is all css, based on the default […]

11 Jun, 2002

Link Love

Posted by: Christine In: How to's

Blogrolling.com has made link adding pretty easy, but just to help people out, Robyn has written up a pretty nice, simple set of Blogrolling instructions. Thanks for sharing it Robyn!

24 May, 2002

Stop Spam!

Posted by: Christine In: How to's

Anyone with a blog that has an e-mail address has probably noticed and increasing amount of spam arriving over time. One way to stop it is by encoding your e-mail address in numerical equivalents and wrapping the results in Javascript. Rather then figuring out all the numerical equivalents yourself, you can just head on over […]

24 May, 2002

How To Build a Photolog

Posted by: Christine In: How to's

Thanks to Robyn, I found this site with instructions on how to build a photolog in MT in 5 easy steps. Pretty interesting!

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15 May, 2002

Empty Cells in Netscape 6+

Posted by: Jennifer In: How to's

If you're using background colors or images in table cells, and you look at your page in netscape 6+, if one of your table cells doesn't actually have anything in it… (ie. one or more cells look like this) <td></td> Then nothing will show up in those cells: no background image. no background color. CSS […]

13 May, 2002

List Google Only Referrers

Posted by: Jennifer In: How to's

This will let you list your 50 most referrers from google hits. First, download the LittleGreenFootballs referrer script.


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