Entries from »March 2005«

Here you will find all entries published in March 2005. You can read a short summary. A link pointing to the full text is given. You can also have this list sorted ascending.

Movable Type knows templates and entries. Inside the templates the structure of the HTML pages is described. Inside the entries there is the content for those pages. Unfortunatly the tags, which are used in the templates, are forbidden inside the entries. But there is a way out.

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mgs | 03/30/2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

When creating the HTML-files, Movable Type is influenced by a couple of templates. With their help the final appearence of the created pages is defined. In the beginning you should best leave those templates untouched. But after you have mastered the Movable Type basics, you can change those templates in way so that the created website is according to your wishes.

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mgs | 03/27/2005 | Permalink | Comments (3)

In other weblogs you will often see the term "Permalink«. What is this? And where do you find this term in your Movable Type based weblog?

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mgs | 03/24/2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)

Migrating to MySQL

03/22/2005

When learning Movable Type it is the easiest way to save all data in the filesystem. However, you should move on to MySQL after having gained some experience. I will describe the necessary steps.

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mgs | 03/22/2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

If you want that the filenames created by Movable Type also support umlauts you have to extend a plugin. This sounds difficult. But even I, not knowing Perl, have succeeded.

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mgs | 03/21/2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)

Date Formats

03/20/2005

Near an entry's title the date of creation is given. How can you change the format?

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mgs | 03/20/2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

If you want to optimize your weblog for Google ranking you should take care of a couple of rules. The correct choice of delimiters for filenames is important.

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mgs | 03/20/2005 | Permalink | Comments (10)

The third chapter of this three-part introduction describes the architecture and the expandability of Movable Type.

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mgs | 03/06/2005 | Permalink | Comments (4)

The second chapter of this three-part introduction gives an overview of templates and the process for generating the HTML.

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mgs | 03/05/2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

The first chapter of this three-part introduction describes the most important components of Movable Type, as for example weblogs, authors, entries and page types.

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mgs | 03/03/2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

 
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