So I’m converting over to Movable Type (link on the bar to the left, don’t bother me now). I’m already pleased by:
a. My ability to do fun stuff I couldn’t do before (like a list of recent posts).
b. The interface, which seems to have gotten slicker since v1.0, which was the last time I looked at this.
Since it handles comments just fine (IMO), I’m dumping the PHP comments and reverting this to an HTML file (aaaahhhhhhh). Also, since MT seems to want to make the index file called INDEX, that’s what this will be, which means I need to change over the old DAVESBLOG.PHP record to forward on to this file.
I also need to tweak the comments template. And the archive template, I would suspect. Templates.
Plenty to do here, still, but I think I’ll cut over from Blogger. The main page seems to work, and that’s the important thing at the moment. And given Blogger’s flakiness of late, better sooner than later …
Well done! I was too much of a technodolt to handle MT, so I stuck with Blogger. And I still can’t even fix my Blogger archives! Oh well…
Heh. Blogger was always screwing up my archives, for unknown reasons.
Actually, if you can get your blog set up with Cascading Style Sheets (eep!), the conversion to MT is not all that terrible.
Excellent, I can link to your individual posts now!
Yeah, I prefer the perma-links going to the individual posts, rather than the archive. YMMV, of course.
For the record, you can get MT to make your blog a different file other than index.html, but since I like the blog URL much better this way (easier to remember), I’m not going to detail the process.
I didn’t like the MT comments when I tried it, but you’re looks much better than my effort. I might give it another try.
Yeah, I like being able to drop off the “davesblog.php” bit.
The main annoyances with the MT comments so far (and they may have fixed it up a bit since you originally signed on) is that
a. The info is not auto-remembered (I think I saw mention of something on the MT site about that).
b. Clicking on the link to comment seems to draw the main window to the top of the page.
c. I have an annoying glitch in my “Preview” window that I can’t figure out. Yet.
It’s “b” that’s been driving me crazy. I know it’s the way the popup links to anchor # but I haven’t been able to muster the brainpower to fix it.
Thankyew! Yes, it’s that straightforward. I’ve changed the href in that link to be href=”#[$MTEntryID pad=”1″$]” (substitute angle brackets for the square ones).
That makes the link go to the top of the post, which is not perfect, but is a darned sight better.
I tried taking the href statement out altogether, but the link doesn’t light up, and it seems to not open up the comment properly.
Howzat?
Whoo-hoo!
[doing the little happy dance]
That was it! Thank you!