September 04, 2003
TypePad-Look-Alike Stylesheet
This is the first stylesheet that I've done for MovableStyle site! Well. The look 'n' feel is nothing original, but imitate many existing sites on TypePad.com, including Claudine's beta testing site.
Switch to TypePad Style
It was a quick hack job, and I think quite a few parts still does not appear to work. I think I'll come back later to get the comment listing/preview and trackback listing to work. There are also some glitches due to differences between the MovableType and TypePad templates.
First of all, I cannot get the banner and content to centred on the page, due to the way MovableType stock template is structured. On TypePad, it is structured like this:
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="banner" />
<div id="content" />
<div id="right" />
</div>
</body>
Where as in MT, the index page template has the following structure:
<body>
<div id="banner" />
<div id="content" />
<div id="links" />
</body>
The contents that need to be centred are not wrapped inside another DIV with margin-left and margin-right set to auto, and so far I have not found a way to move #content and #links next to each other yet centred in the page. I realise that I could use IE's expression style to calculate the left/right margin, but then Mozilla users will loose out. At the end, I just set up a fixed margin (10%) on the left/right.
Posted by Dasme at September 4, 2003 11:51 AMGreat job. You can see how I implemented your sheet on my site. I tried fixing the broken comment listing and trackback stuff, but I'm too much of a newb to Movable Type. Just letting you know that any help you can provide in this regard is much appreciated. Thanks.
Posted by: dan at September 10, 2003 06:20 PMConcur on 'great job'. I'd love to use this style sheet but have to figure out how to 'fix' the broken stuff first. Why doesn't the font appear on the comments pop-up? That worries me more than being centered on the page...
Posted by: Ken at October 6, 2003 12:37 AMThe font doesn't appear because of a known bug in Internet Explorer. If you view the page in a browser like Mozilla you will see that the text is there. There are supposed to be 'solutions' to this problem though... :=>
Posted by: bjossi at October 7, 2003 08:28 AMI still don't get it why the fonts do not work in comment popups? It works fine for me under IE (Mac/Win), Mozilla/Firebird and Safari. Be more specific?
Posted by: scotty at October 7, 2003 11:40 PMYes, the fonts do not appear in the comment popups. Anyone with solutions?
Posted by: ML at December 28, 2003 11:46 PM