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19 Jun, 2002

MT tutorials and code

Posted by: kristine In: How to's

After several requests for tutorials on the MT boards, I've put together some tutorials and codes for Movable Type on a few different topics. These could be modified to fit other blogging software or just normal page designs as well.

The first is a 3 column layout. It is all css, based on the default MT stylesheet and my own version of the bluerobot technique for flanking sidebars.

The second is a Photoblog layout. Its also all css, and has a more indepth tutorial on how to use this format for SUPER-easy posting of your images. The design is also based on the default MT stylesheet, with similar tweaks that my own personal photoblog uses. A photoblog in MT is an ideal place to try out the Next/Previous Category hack from this site!!

I hope these help somebody!

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10 Responses to "MT tutorials and code"

1 | Jenna

July 1st, 2002 at 2:56 pm

haha. sorry about that crazy post.. i wasn't paying attention to the tags. sooowwy.

2 | kristine

July 1st, 2002 at 3:06 pm

Sorry, you are right – I need to add this to the tutorial – turn off the convert line breaks on the posts (you can make that a default by visiting the blog config). This will make your images show up instead of giving them <p></p> tags around the img src!
Hope this helps!

3 | Tina

August 14th, 2002 at 9:54 am

I love this! *mwah*!

4 | Joshua Ferguson

February 19th, 2003 at 3:21 am

I love the way this looks, at one point I'll figure out how to make it look the way I want it to. lol

5 | Joshua Ferguson

February 19th, 2003 at 5:10 pm

Is it possible to make the category wrap under the picture? I'm using the photoblog template without the title and only the category under each picture but I have some long categories that cause the pics to move over. Can I wordwrap these somehow to stay under the picture?

6 | Jenna

July 1st, 2002 at 2:56 pm

mmkay.. I'm using the Photoblog template you suggested.. but when I rebuild the files, it adds a < or <p> or > tag to the < or <moretextlink> or >. Any ideas on how to change this? (I hope I'm explaining myself effectively.)

7 | zalary

June 19th, 2002 at 9:50 pm

heehee, i've been working on some mt stylesheets too – and one i made was of the 2 column blue robot one.

we're always on the same wavelength!

8 | vagabond

June 20th, 2002 at 1:12 pm

Thank you for the link to the 3 column layout taken changed up alittle and installed. One of these days I hope to be able to understand all of this enough to send in something.

9 | Carla

June 19th, 2002 at 12:38 pm

This is extremely helpful! Thanks!

10 | lavonne

June 19th, 2002 at 3:18 pm

Great! I'm looking forward to digging in and learning more. What a wonderful service all of you are providing–thank you!

Curt: If anyone comes across this with similar issues I was able to sort out the pagination issues painlessly with easyCommentsPaginate from http://www.mush
Christopher: Yeah, it is indeed hard to do. And something remains elusive about why the pagination never worked. I tried everything I could find. Regardless, I
Jennifer: Hi Christopher, always hard to bug test stuff like that remotely. Sorry those didn't help. Glad you found a solution though :)

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