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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Up and Running on New Host

Well, that was easier than I thought it would be. I’ll probably jinx it by saying so, but the move was pretty easy. Cantoni.org is now being hosted by Pair.com. The biggest unknown for me was the DNS change. I was skeptical when they claimed it takes “24 – 72 hours” for the change to propagate through, but I noticed it at just over 24 hours. Not bad. For now, I’m keeping the old site up until I make sure everything made it over safely (http://216.247.87.96/). Update 11/12/02: This whole transition points out another great benefit of CityDesk. Once my…

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