My experiment with Movable Type is going well, so now I'm preparing to change over from CityDesk. Here are a few things I've needed to change or tweak so far, just for my future reference:
- Turned on Individual, Monthly, and Category archives and tweaked their templates
- Changed references to each posting to be a permalink
- Removed the calendar from the main index page
- Changed the RSS feed templates as suggested on the RSS Validator site
- Changed the monthly archives to be stored by folder (e.g., 2002/12/index.html)
- Changed the category archives to be stored by folder (e.g., site/index.html). This will make finding the various categories easier, e.g. "www.cantoni.org/pictures".
Things that still need to be worked out include:
- Styles: everything still looks odd in certain web browsers
- Location: move everything up from /blog/... to the root of the web site
- Import: import old entries from CityDesk
- Old URLs: make sure all old URLs are either covered by new content or are redirected appropriately
