http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/category/movable_type/ Tips, tutorials, templates, and links to lots more, including plugins, scripting, and the latest about Movable Type, weblogs, and content management publishing tools. en-us Movable Type Copyright 2000-2008 Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns. All rights reserved. Shirley Kaiser 2005-08-07T22:55:30-08:00 720 daily 2 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://brainstormsandraves.com/xml/brainstorms88.gif http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/category/movable_type/ 88 31 Tips, tutorials, templates, and links to lots more, including plugins, scripting, and the latest about Movable Type, weblogs, and content management publishing tools. We're live on the new server! In a nutshell, I'm thrilled. Moving this website to the new server has been frustrating at times and certainly time-consuming for both my ISP and for myself, but it's definitely been a worthwhile adventure. Preliminary good planning and organization helped us tremendously and made all the difference. Today's post relays some of the details about making the move. I've definitely learned a lot through this process, too. (2212 words, 35 links, 1 image) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/08/07/move/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/08/07/move/ Shirley Kaiser 2005-08-07T22:55:30 For the past several days, my ISP and I have worked on moving all my domains to one of their new servers. Next on the agenda is moving my Movable Type installation to the new server and getting that all set up. I'm hoping for some tips or assistance, so I'd greatly appreciate comments here, via my contact form, or email me directly (for those who know my email address). Below I've also included some helpful resources that I've found researching this server move. (676 words, 19 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/07/26/mt/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/07/26/mt/ Shirley Kaiser 2005-07-26T15:27:40 An automated spam-bomber attacked my weblog last week and again in a much bigger way over the weekend, with comment denials every 6-11 seconds, as reported in my Movable Type Activity Log. Thankfully ALL 93 attempts were futile, however, thanks to Jay Allen's MTBlacklist. A new tactic, "spam piggybacking," is also on the rise. (830 words, 10 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/08/02/spammers/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/08/02/spammers/ Shirley Kaiser 2004-08-02T07:00:40 XFN, a simple way to represent human relationships within hyperlinks, is part of the efforts of the Global Multimedia Protocols Group, GMPG, founded by Tantek Celik, Eric Meyer, Matthew Mullenweg. Below are a few links that explain more about XFN and how to implement XFN within your site. (286 words, 21 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/04/04/xfn/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/04/04/xfn/ Shirley Kaiser 2004-04-04T19:31:29 I've noticed that a growing number of websites are providing tooltips and styles for abbreviations and acronyms within content. Later versions of browsers support the abbr and acronym elements, with the exception of Internet Explorer unfortunately not recognizing the abbr element. Today's Friday Feast provides some helpful links to tutorials, comments, examples, information, charts, and tools related to abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms. (848 words, 25 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/01/02/feast_64_acronyms/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/01/02/feast_64_acronyms/ Shirley Kaiser 2004-01-02T20:01:29 In the FeedDemon newsgroup Jakub Kazecki shared how to post to MovableType directly from FeedDemon RSS Reader, as shown below. See also Glenn Slaven's post for posting to Typepad from FeedDemon. FeedDemon 1.0 RC2 is also now available. See today's post for links and details. (168 words, 8 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/10/27/feeddemon_movable_type/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/10/27/feeddemon_movable_type/ Shirley Kaiser 2003-10-27T09:38:54 Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist has been made available to help combat comments spam. There's plenty of praise and comments at his post, MT-Blacklist: Stop Spam Now, too. Since I'd already implemented Jay's comment spam modules I've seen firsthand how incredibly effective filtering can be for my site, reducing my comments spam to a trickle. For more of my thoughts on dealing with comments spam with links and tips see my post, Friday Feast #61: Unwanted Comments. (199 words, 8 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/10/13/spam/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/10/13/spam/ Shirley Kaiser 2003-10-13T21:03:27 I was absolutely horrified when I read Phil Ringnalda's comment spam alert story last year in which a Las Vegas real estate agent used a script to try to autogenerate comments to every single one of Phil's entries, including links to the spammer's real estate site. While most of us won't get bombed like that we still have our hands full with unwanted comment spammers. Today's Friday Feast provides some tips about what I do to help combat comment spam along with links to more helpful tips, plugins, scripts, and information. (1318 words, 24 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/10/03/feast_61_unwanted_comments/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/10/03/feast_61_unwanted_comments/ Shirley Kaiser 2003-10-03T17:49:29 Friendly, lasting URLs are easy enough to manage when you create the site architecture and URLs yourself, but with the increasing popularity of weblogs and content management programs there's been increasing interest in what can be done to ensure friendly URLs that can be permanent regardless of programs used, changing servers, or changing programs. Today's post looks at a few possibilities and pitfalls with Movable Type. (995 words, 12 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/09/28/urls/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/09/28/urls/ Shirley Kaiser 2003-09-28T16:26:29 As much as I love using Movable Type, a few things have bothered me about MT, too, such as MT generating absolute URLs for internal links when relative URLs should be used. Stepan Riha's MTRelativeURL plugin is an incredibly easy way to generate relative URLs with MT, thankfully, wherever the plugin tags are used. Today's post explains how to use it and why it matters. (589 words, 14 links, 1 image) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/09/07/relative_vs_absolute_urls/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/09/07/relative_vs_absolute_urls/ Shirley Kaiser 2003-09-07T16:13:23