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
Web Design
Using Movable Type as an events calendar
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
To Do List
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
Smaakvol
That it is. (In case you're wondering, "smaakvol" is one of their meta keywords. I was intrigued.) According to one Dutch-English dictionary I found, "smaakvol" means "pleasing." I suspect a more direct translation is "sounds wicked cool." English has very few words with … [Read more...] about Smaakvol
Life is good
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
Whew!
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!
On the move
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
rantrantrant
I really, really need to rant. If you don't give a rodent's behind about web design, skip to the next post. For the rest of you…. a certain fellow employee, in a distant but related part of my organization, hired a freelance web designer not long ago to create a new site … [Read more...] about rantrantrant
The server saga continues…
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…
The secret garden
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
