Moving to Movable Type

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…

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Playing with archives

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.

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Stylesheets and templates

Okay, I managed to update the style to the ‘Rusty’ style from the movabletype.org website. At least the layout is close to what I’m looking for, but I’ll probably change the colors and possibly fonts a little bit. This layout looks strange with only a couple of short entries. The right-hand pane wraps all the way to the left at this point. I suppose with a few more entries it will look okay.

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