scriptygoddess

There’s quite a bit of upfront work, but if you really want this… then maybe it’d be worth it to you. You’ll also need to understand a *little* php. I’ll try to explain it the best I can, if you have any questions, let me know, be as specfic as you possibly can, and hopefully I (or one of the other scriptygoddesses) can help…

(MAJOR MAJOR Thanks to goddessLynda for her help on this one!)

(UPDATE: She just doesn’t give up either! LOL! Follow along - but DO look at the comments - Lynda posted a comment with a better/easier way than mine…)

(MORE UPDATE: Lynda and I are still working on this… we’re trying to make it as automated as possible so it’s not so difficult to implement… and also make it as more friendly to the server.. less work - you might want to wait for version 2 of this tutorial - after we’ve had a chance to get this working…)

LAST AND FINAL UPDATE: I’m leaving this post here more for my own information - but Lynda wrote up the tutorial for the revised way to do this - which summarizes all the commenting back and forth. It’s almost completely plug-n-play. Go HERE for the best method.
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I was browsing through my referrers and found this site: ericalba.com and saw that he/she(?) was using a really neato fade script on text links. After poking around a bit - I discovered it’s apparently a script you can download from here.

It seems like there’s a few other interesting scripts there as well.

(updated 5/26/2003 - both these links are apparently no more - if anyone knows where else it can be downloaded - please let me know)

Well, as you may or may not have noticed, I’ve been futzing around with the pages here. Robyn and Christine both asked about category next/previous links in MT… and though it was said (on the MT boards) that it can’t be done, I’ve gotten *very very* close. But! no cigar…

So, welcome to another part of this blog - as collaboration tool. Here’s what I’ve got so far:
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Is this noteworthy? Its like a little microblip. No, its a micropoll
Need an easy script to make a poll on your page? Check out technoerotica’s Micropoll. Looks easy to use!

I posted a link to this on my page, but it was worth repeating over here…

Wander-lust is a great site that I’ve recently, and once you sign up, they will spider your site for content, and show your recent headlines on their site. With MT, its easy to provide the code that the spiders need without having to go to their site and tell them your update.

Somewhere between your MTEntries tags, put this comment:

<!–syndicate
<$MTEntryTitle$>|<$MTEntryExcerpt$>
/syndicate–>

Lets say your site has three areas: blog - about - links. When you’re on the blog page, you want the link “blog” to be bold (or a different color, or a different image, etc.) but you’re using an include for the navigation, (and besides, customizing it for each page is a pain). Again, probably more ways to do this… here’s one way in Javascript:
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Hellllooo!!! Thanks to Jennifer and Lynda for letting me join in on their fun!!

My first basic tip to share - css = cascading style sheets. They control the appearance of your pages, much like bold and center tags, but even with more coolness!

And my first real tip - my very favorite tool to recommend to you is Top Style. Its a style sheet editor that lets you preview your style sheets. You can download a trial copy of it! Check it out, its way neato!

I’ve actually had this site bookmarked for awhile, but Erika reminded me of it:
Hot Scripts

A few more from my favorites list:
DHTML Central
Script Search
Brain Jar
Javascript.com

I’ve just asked Kristine to be an author here and spill some CSS tips and tricks.
Welcome! Welcome!

Great link found by Christine: movableblog. Lots of MT tips.