http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/05/14/1314256.shtml?tid=1 49&tid=185&tid=99
Been taking a look at WordPress, and so far it looks good. It’d also force me to learn PHP, which I’ve been meaning to do for quite some time now…
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… or I could always not upgrade, but I’d like to get some of the features of MT3 (some of which are already available in other CMS’s), and the great familiarity that would come with it. Though, however, switching CMS’s may not be bad, and besides, most of them out there can and will import MT entries. Hm.. I’ll have to look at WordPress a bit more. I’ve already uploaded the zip file that contains everything to my site, just gotta unzip it (whatever happened to our telnet access?) and install. Hm. On the flip side, however, I would have to start EVERYTHING over again (site-wise, not entry-wise), I’d lose all my templates and such and would have to make new ones. Actually… I could still use my current ones, but they aren’t PHP compatible, and if I am to switch to a new CMS that uses PHP, I’ll wanna use PHP too, right? Right. Besides, a new layout would not be a bad idea, i’m still (technically) using the default one that came with MT.
ACK, the bell has rung, school is out.
So I was searching around on my favorite MT/general web site tips page, scriptygoddess, when I came across a link to Learning MovableType. ‘Tis a nice site with some very good tutorials for making the most of MT. There was one tutorial, in particular, that caught my eye: Widening the MT Edit Window. You know, the textareas where you edit your templates and/or entries. Making the textareas bigger is very nice, but it took me a while to find the file the tutorial references. The stylesheet in question wasn’t in my MT-Static folder as the tutorial said it would be. Heck, I didn’t even have a MT-Static folder. The stylesheet, however, was in my main MT folder, so it’s all good.
Due to the recent influx of comment spam, I’m seriously thinking of closing the comments for a while, or at least until I’m accepted into the MT3 beta. MT3 uses something called TypeKey, which requires one to sign up to comment on MT3 blogs, but that one login can be used on ALL MT3 TypeKey enabled blogs, and its free. Hopefully that will lower the spam count greatly…
Oh, within that last two weeks, I’ve gotten four spams from the following IPs:
205.215.195.253
200.49.218.125
141.83.165.100
203.59.246.76
Have fun, those oh you that know how to do stuff.
So I decided to start working on that 3 column layout that I’ve always wanted.
Check it out here.
This site gave me the basic layout to work from, and I’ve been modifying it as I please to get it to look like what I currently have. However, if I do make this template my new main one… I won’t be able to use any of the other stylesheets that I’ve acquired through MovableStyle. Hm, oh well… We’ll see how it works out. If it doesn’t look to good I won’t use it, but will, instead, stick with the current layout.
There are some new additions to the side bar. Currently there are three, the max there will ever be is ten. I set up yet a third blog to manage that. It outputs it’s posts to a javascript file, and the javavscript is then included in the MT Module, Sidebar. MT Modules are bits of code that can be called into any MT Template, but can be edited only once, in one place, and affect every template/page that includes it. I currently have my header, blogbody, and sidebar in modules. Using this third blog, I can post information that I don’t want to go into my main blog, but I still want on the main page. Currently I have a reminders post, a LAN Party post, and a post with links for my research paper for Honors. Comments are also enabled for ones that I feel deserve comments (the LAN Party one does have comments, whereas the reminders one doesn’t).
