Finally configured ecto to do an accurate preview of the posts here while I’m working on them, using the site’s own CSS. It’s a neat little facility, but it points out that the current (well, maybe a dot release old) templating for MT is just incredibly baroque. These posts are embedded in eight (or was it nine?) divs. I mean — that’s just freaking crazy!
Did something similar to add the 100 Words blog to my ecto installation, so I can use ecto for posting (handy since it has a word counter). That blog’s old school, so far as CSS goes — two or three simple divs.
Anyway, should make life a bit easier.
One minor annoyance. The 100 Word blog has a keen mechanism that anything entered into the Tag field will create a link to that word (presumably a subcategory, e.g., the Donne & Donne subcat on the site). Alas, ecto (and the MT XMLRPC API) doesn’t support the Tag data element, so I still have to do that part manually.
Still easier and more convenient to use ecto for the composition.