They are probably weary of me by now, given that I am not exactly part of that high-end developers’ community they need feedback from for 3.0, but Movable Type support folk have been terrific (and terrifically kind). I finally “get” the templates (although I won’t be doing too many tweaks without extensive tutorials or model […]
After several days of work with very patient Six Apart staff, they pinpointed something crucial: I hadn’t modified the MT 3.0 default templates. They pointed me to some documentation I hadn’t seen during purchase and registration. Ah hah! I immediately solved a problem with a test blog I had created (involving a DateTime module I […]
If you are commenting, or not commenting, or trying to comment (oh, go ahead, comment!), be warned that the comment registration feature seems way buggy. I put in a help ticket. I’m handling comments a little differently in the future–I eyeballed a posting from Liz Lawley talking about scripts that close comments after a period, […]
Hey… I upgraded to Movable Type 3.0, in under an hour! (I just couldn’t stand not knowing what it looked like.) Greetings, comment registration! Good-bye, Mr. Penis Ad! Hello, batch-process IP banning! I haven’t done anything with stylesheets… I’ll get into that in a few days. Better get moving… once school starts 6-26 (and I […]
Thanks to Liz Lawley’s MamaMusings, I caught that Mena at Six Apart is looking for people to tell them how they use Movable Type; see http://www.sixapart.com/log/2004/05/how_are_you_usi.shtml I just counted, and I have 9 blogs, but only five are really active. I use one blog to host my main site, Blue Highways. It seemed like an […]
What was I thinking? My G-mail address is bluehighways at gmail.com(not highways@gmail.com). Oy! Bookmark to:
Update: Note corrected address! I set one up, courtesy of a colleague who had a few to give out. Feel free to write me at bluehighways at gmail.com (first problem: I couldn’t use my preferred username, kgs, because usernames need to be at least six characters long). One part of the user “agreement” gave me […]
Six Apart responded to the deluge of complaints about its new pricing plan. For the most part I think they had made decisions based on reasonably good information (a survey of their users), but failed to take all of the available information from their environment in account. The missteps are instructive, and–saying this with great […]
(Updated) Six Apart announced the debut of two major changes for Movable Type: a price structure, and the availability of what they call the “developer’s” version of Movable Type 3.0 (a suave euphemism for “so beta you can see the wires poking out of it”). The new price schedule initially took me aback, until I […]
(Update: Cohen has called off the Googlebomb.) I woke up this morning to see a well-meaning request to Googlebomb LII (the place where I work… o.k., I know you know that, but there is a very intentional veil between FRL and LII). Not only that, Jessamyn has already critiqued the practice. Lordy, lordy… can’t a […]