Template

When I decided to go ahead and try Yet Another Blog after having had two failures, I decided to trash all my previous layouts in favor of something simple. This time around I was planning on using photos, cartoons and other distractions in my entries, so I wanted everything in the layout to be uncluttered. Initially this meant Blogography had a white background with gray text menus and not much else. But eventually common sense set in and I ended up with the design you're looking at today (which is based entirely on the default Movable Type template that comes with the installation).

Overall, I like the layout of my blog and have no plans to change it anytime soon (indeed, I'm guessing the day I change it is the day I'll delete it and start all over again... or not). That being said, there are still a number of little details that I'm unhappy with and would like to change. Tonight I thought it would be fun to make some of those changes.

I was wrong.

Apparently, I am more inept at handling Movable Type's templates than I thought. In fact, I am a complete moron on the subject. It's now nearly 1am and I've been working on it for the past six hours and am failing miserably. Fortunately, I backed up all my templates, so now I'm going to revert to the originals and go to bed a defeated, wreck of a man.

I need that book Neil is working on! But since it isn't scheduled to be released until January 10th of next year, I guess I'll wait a while before trying my hand at customizing MT again.

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If you want some help, shoot me an email with the problem you're having. I have spent many an hour building and rebuilding.

Posted by John on August 27, 2004

   

There are so many things, but the one thing that bothers me the most is that I can't figure out a way to let somebody view previous entries from the main page without sending them to the archives. I display 10 entries at the root, and would love to have a link to the "Previous 10 Entries" so somebody could start reading backwards through my blog without having to navigate archives. When I was with Blogger, this was automatic, but MT doesn't seem to have this feature? I'm probably just missing it.

Posted by Dave2 on August 28, 2004

   

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