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Yessir, this is why we have Movable Type. … [Read more...] about Livejournal toasted

These tricks apply to the tiny calendars that appear on your home page, not the full-screen monthly archives from my last post. How to link to a full day's entries instead of the last one on that day: – Turn on daily archives. – In your calendar code, replace … [Read more...] about Various tricks with archive calendars

Part two: the full-screen calendar view Examples: Mena, Mark, Maddy and this blog There are several ways to generate a monthly calendar with alternate days shaded – PHP, Javascript, the COL tag (IE only) and CSS. We'll use the CSS way. Examples: Mena, Mark, Maddy, … [Read more...] about Full-screen calendar view in Movable Type

There are a couple of ways of using Movable Type to create a calendar of events. One is to display future events as text entries, replacing the traditional bloggish today-going-backwards posting order. The key to this is the fact that MT allows you to change the date on a … [Read more...] about Using Movable Type as an events calendar

1. Register domain 2. Set up dynamic DNS stuff 3. Finish sidebars 4. Configure monthly archives to display as calendars, as done at work today 5. Write comprehensive tutorial on using MT as an event calendar so people won't have to pick through 20 threads on the support forum … [Read more...] about To Do List

MT static files fixed, most recent entries cleaned up and categorized. Blog working beautifully. Life is good. Next on the list: customize the formatting of the comments window. Oh, and clean up the other 200 posts. (Nothing like importing 240-odd posts to weigh down a new … [Read more...] about Life is good

I got MT up and running not a moment too soon… the second (and last) of my Blogger blogs nuked itself this morning as I was making one last entry. Thank $deity the MT export format is simple and allowed me to fix the problem (unlike Blogger's interface, which simply ate … [Read more...] about Whew!

I got Movable Type installed last night. Today I'll be importing these posts and shutting down this blog. Whee! … [Read more...] about On the move

Apache and Perl are installed but not playing nicely together like good little children should. MySQL is, I'm told, also installed. PHP is too, but it needs some configuring. Movable Type isn't installed yet. Gotta get Perl working first. Argh. … [Read more...] about The server saga continues…

There's a secret garden on the Blogroots site: an introduction to blogging, what blogs are, and how to get started. Nicely done. (Actually, it may not qualify as a secret garden at all, because I don't think it's linked to anything on the Blogroots site.) … [Read more...] about The secret garden