Table of Contents
Introduction.
I. GETTING STARTED WITH MOVABLE TYPE.
Hour 1. Preparing Great Content for the Web.
Planning Your Content. Exploring Hosting Options. Organizing Needed
Software. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 2. Installing Movable
Type.
Preparing for and Downloading Movable Type. Installing Movable
Type. Testing, Initializing, and Running Movable Type. Summary.
Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 3. Setting Standard Preferences.
Setting Up a Weblog in Movable Type. Setting General Preferences.
Adding a Creative Commons License. Setting Archive, Notification,
and Comment Preferences. Setting Commenting Preferences. Rebuilding
the Site. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 4. Adjusting Your
Editing Preferences.
Getting Ready to Use Movable Type Editors. Learning and Customizing
the Edit Entry Screen. Configuring Advanced Editing Options.
Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 5. Creating, Editing,
Searching, and Deleting Entries.
Working with Movable Type Entries. Editing Entries. Adding Search
and Replace for Entries. Keeping a Clean House. Summary. Q&A.
Workshop.
Hour 6. Managing Archives.
Archiving Using Movable Type. Adding Multiple and Custom Archive
Options. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 7. Creating
Categories.
Category Types. Exploring the Category-Editing Features. Creating
Categories. Configuring Categories for TrackBack. Applying
Categories. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 8. Managing
Multiple Authors.
Planning for Multiple Authors. Adding Authors. Editing an Author.
Revoking Permissions and Removing Authors. Summary. Q&A.
Workshop.
Hour 9. Migrating to Movable Type.
Understanding the Migration Process. Exporting Entries. Importing
Entries. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
II. WORKING WITH TEMPLATES.
Hour 10. Using Movable Type Templates.
About Templates in Movable Type. Using Movable Type Template
Designs. Exploring Other Available Templates. Summary. Q&A.
Workshop.
Hour 11. Customizing Movable Type Templates.
About Markup and CSS for the Web. Modifying Your Template Styles.
Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 12. Adding Custom Designs to
Movable Type.
Building a Custom Master Index Template. Adding the Template to
Movable Type. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
III. ADDING FEATURES FOR YOUR VISITORS.
Hour 13. Providing Public Search.
Understanding the Basics. Working with Text Search Forms. Working
with New Comment Search Forms. Understanding Search Templates.
Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 14. Getting Started with
Comments.
Comment Basics. Setting Comment Preferences. Implementing Comments.
Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 15. Taking Comments
Further.
Allowing Visitors to Preview Their Comments. Handling Comment
Errors. Managing Comments. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 16.
Using TrackBack.
Understanding TrackBack. Sending a TrackBack Ping. Receiving
TrackBack Pings. Displaying Received TrackBack Pings. Managing
Received TrackBack Pings. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 17.
Doing More with TrackBack.
Using TrackBack Auto-Discovery. Pinging Categories. Summary.
Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 18. Using Movable Type's Email
Features.
Sending Update Notifications. Adding a Mail This Entry Feature.
Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
IV. BEYOND THE BASICS.
Hour 19. Scrubbing Content with Sanitize.
Understanding Sanitize. Changing Your Sanitize Settings. Summary.
Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 20. Uploading Files in Movable
Type.
The Basics of Uploading. Uploading Non-Image Files. Special
Features for Uploading Images. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour
21. Using Desktop Clients with Movable Type.
Zempt. SharpMT. ecto. w.bloggar. Frequency. Summary. Q&A.
Workshop.
Hour 22. Movable Type Plug-Ins.
Movable Type Plug-In Basics. A Simple Plug-In: NicknameLink. A More
Complex Plug-In: MT-Blacklist. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour
23. Promoting Your Content.
Web Sites That Can Promote Your Weblog. Weblog Rings. Newsfeeds.
Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 24. TypePad, Movable Type
Upgrades, and Movable Type Pro.
TypePad. Movable Type Upgrades. Movable Type Pro. Summary. Q&A.
V. APPENDIXES.
Appendix A. System Requirements, Upgrades, and Licensing
Information.
System Requirements for Movable Type. Upgrading Movable Type.
Movable Type Licensing.
Appendix B. Template Tag
Reference.
Weblog Tags. Entry Tags. Archive Tags. Category Tags. Calendar
Tags. Search Results Tags. Comment Tags. TrackBack Tags.
Miscellaneous Tags. Global Tag Attributes. Formatting Dates.
Appendix C. Advanced Installation and Troubleshooting
Guide.
Installing Required and Additional Modules. Adding Database
Options. Adding Optional Modules. Troubleshooting Common
Problems-Where to Get Additional Support.
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About the Author
About the Authors
An author, instructor, and Web designer, Molly E.
Holzschlag has authored more than 27 books related to Web
design and development. She's been coined "one of the greatest
digerati" and deemed one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on
the Web. There is little doubt that in the world of Web design and
development, Molly is one of the most fun and vibrant Web
characters around.
As a steering committee member for the Web Standards Project
(WaSP), Molly works along with a group of other dedicated Web
developers and designers to promote W3C recommendations. She also
teaches Webmaster courses for the University of Arizona, University
of Phoenix, and Pima Community College. She wrote the very popular
column, "Integrated Design," for Web Techniques Magazine for the
last three years of its life, and spent a year as Executive Editor
of WebReview.com.
Porter Glendinning is the owner and principal consultant
of Cerebellion Design, and has been doing Web design and
development professionally since the bookstore's "Web section" was
just a single shelf in the back corner. He is devoted to keeping
the Web an open and accessible forum where anyone who wants to can
have his or her voice heard, and sees education as critical to
achieving that goal.
Porter is a member of the Web Standards Project Steering
Committee and co-administers the Babble mailing list, a forum for
discussions on advanced Web design topics. According to Porter, he
is also way more fun than Molly, but nowhere near as vibrant.