This is another reason I wanted to give Movable Type a try: the ability to post from other software applications. I’m posting this from w.bloggar which is a VB Windows app that can talk to Movable Type through its XML-RPC interface. Cool!
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…
Like most people, I’ve had a Yahoo! ID and mail account for a long time. In addition to being useful for throw-away things like registering for software downloads, I use it for all of the Yahoo! Groups that I’ve subscribed to.
There are a lot of choices for archiving the blog entries. By default it is capturing individual entries as well as by month. I’ve just turned on “archive daily”, so we’ll see how well that works. It’s also nice to see that the default RSS template creates a syndication feed that validates. Update 12/12: Now creating a valid RSS 2.0 feed.
I’ve finally decided to give MovableType a try to see how it compares to CityDesk.