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28 Mar, 2003

Compressing Webpages for Fun and Profit

Posted by: Christine In: How to's

(Written by the Guest Goddess, Photo Matt. Please note: You need to have PHP on your server to do this. No PHP? Won't work.) So your page is now totally pimped out. You have gads of content on your sidebar, you've used ScriptyGoddess know-how to have comments and extended entries pop out like magic, and […]

Some of you may read my personal blog where I have spent days now talking about XML, RSS, and why you want to upgrade your template. I realized as comments came in that an explanation was in order. XML – There is another "language" (per se, for lack of better term) out there called XML. […]

16 Mar, 2003

RSS feeds

Posted by: Lisa In: How to's

Christine has been rallying to get everyone to set up RSS feeds. She's even gotten Jennifer involved. Solonor is also involved in spreading the word. To show my support, I've posted my RSS feeds (on my site). If you're using the restricted post hack, you do not want to use my feeds. Instead, try Mark's […]

23 Feb, 2003

Live Preview and Smilies

Posted by: kristine In: How to's

Oscar Hills put together a tutorial at the MT Forums about using the Live Preview script from over here together with clickable smilies which show up in the Preview. With all the talk about smilies lately, I thought it was worth linking over here too

26 Nov, 2002

IP blocking and custom 404 & 403 with htaccess

Posted by: Jennifer In: How to's

This is old news, but because I've often needed to look for the exact syntax, I'm putting it up here.

30 Oct, 2002

Custom font size, and colors (like on this site)

Posted by: Jennifer In: How to's

Someone asked me to post a tutorial on how I did the custom colors, and font sizes. I can't take sole credit for it, it's a very simple solution based completely on a combination of methods. In fact, in some ways, the "a list apart" way is better because you can let your users select […]

14 Oct, 2002

PDA Page for MT

Posted by: promoguy In: How to's

A PDA Page is a stripped down, no graphics version of your MovableType blog (for example, here is my pda version). The purpose is to allow mobile web devices such as PDAs (PalmPilot, PocketPC, Visor) and cell phones to view your Blog without having to download all of the images, blogrolls, and link lists that […]

13 Oct, 2002

Wander lust pinging

Posted by: Jennifer In: How to's

Kristine posted here before about wander lust – And now with MT 2.5 you can ping them. She posted the instructions here.

13 Oct, 2002

Little Green Footbal Referrer hack: Display date

Posted by: Jennifer In: How to's

Kristine posted on her blog a few weeks ago that she added the date/time to the show referrers. Since I can't see another toy and not know how it's done (and have it for myself) – I figured out how to do it…

29 Aug, 2002

Clippings: bookmarks in your site

Posted by: Lynda In: How to's

I came across this awesome article that shows how to add some javascript to your site that will allow users to "clip" or bookmark particular entries at your site for easy reference later on. If you want to have a look, I've implimented this in most sections of my site.


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