Last 3 Styles Added...
Question about posts
» posted Oct. 13, 2004 » Comments (1)
After posting the last 3 styles I realized that I really posted just 1 style with 2 mutations. I wanted to ask you guys how you would prefer to see styles like this posted in the future. Would you like them all posted separately so they each get their own icon in the All Styles list? Or would you prefer that I make 1 news post and just include the original and mutated styles in one big zip file?
I want to keep the signal to noise ratio down here, so wanted to see if posts like the last 3 bothered anyone. Hope you enjoy the new styles! I'm getting the others that I've created in the last little while ready for posting here as well. Stay tuned!
Tiny Red
» posted Oct. 13, 2004 » Comments (0)
You can view the style on the MT3 test site by clicking the big image.
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Here is the final mutation of the Tiny Green style...
Tiny Blue
» posted Oct. 13, 2004 » Comments (0)
You can view the style on the MT3 test site by clicking the big image.
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Here in the mutated version of the Tiny Green style.
Tiny Green
» posted Oct. 13, 2004 » Comments (0)
You can view the style on the MT3 test site by clicking the big image.
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Here is a nice simple clean style for your blog. A friend of mine requested a minimal style for his blog so Tiny Green was born. I liked it so much that I decided to post it here! I will post the other 2 mutated styles that I made as well. Enjoy!
Jay Allen joins Six Apart
» posted Oct. 12, 2004 » Comments (0)
Wow this is great news, although not stylesheet related. Jay Allen, the author of the indispensable MT-Blacklist plugin, has joined Six Apart as the Movable Type product manager. Hopefully he can work magic in the form of other features like he did for the blacklist plugin.
If you aren't already using MT-Blacklist I highly suggest that you do. (you can download it here) Since it's release for MT 3.0 it has reduced my blog spam comments from 20 a day to maybe 1 a week. A great time savings that's for sure.
New XML feeds
» posted Oct. 6, 2004 » Comments (1)
I have just finished adding some new XML feeds to this site. To make things easier for you to keep up with news posted here, I have added category based XML feeds to teh site. To subscribe just look in the sidebar and click the link for the category that you like to track.
Comments/sugesstions are welcome!
Welcome to the new MovableStyle!
» posted Oct. 5, 2004 » Comments (9)
If you are seeing this, the transition to the new look has been completed!
I've spent my free time for the last month or so creating this new design and getting Movabletype all set up to serve the new pages. There have been a huge number of changes that I've made and I'll try to highlight them all below.
New Design
I've worked hard on a new design for the site, and I think it turned out pretty well! I wasn't happy with the way the old site was always changing as the user viewed new styles. To still have the style switching capability I have created 2 "Test Sites" as I like to call them. One for MT 2.x styles/templates and one for MT 3.x. I think these will help the users to view the styles that they want, but still allow me to have a strong look and feel for the main site.
Individual Style Posts
Instead of textual links like I was doing in the past, I have taken screen shots of all the stylesheets as they are seen on the test sites. To view any of these styles on a test site you can simply click the large or small images that you will see around the site, and you will be taken over to the test site. You can quickly tell MT2 style posts from MT3 posts as there will be a small border in blue and orange respectively. And you will always be able to find the last 3 styles that were added at the top of the main page.
View all the Styles Quickly
In the side bar you can quickly view all the styles for your preferred version of Movabletype by selecting the appropriate category archive. At the bottom there is a also link to let you view all the styles by their small thumbnail as well.
As you can see there have been a huge number of changes, hopefully they are for the better. Please let me know what you think of the changes by posting a comment here. Seeing as the site is being ported over like this, you may get the odd broken link or error message. You can let me know about those too :)
Hope you all enjoy the new MovableStyle!
Typepad GreenGrass
» posted Oct. 4, 2004 » Comments (0)
You can view the style on the MT3 test site by clicking the big image.
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Earlier today Elise from Learning Movabletype commented on one of my posts pointing me to an article she wrote. It was on the TypePad conversions she did, and they looked great! Thinking that my users could benefit from these as well I quickly wrote up and email asking permission to post them up over here as well. She agreed, so here they are.
Thanks again to Elise, these look great! If any of you are going to use one of these styles, why not pop over to LMT and post your thanks. Again these were posted with her blessings, and I have credited her site in the CSS files themselves.
If any of you have some nice styles that you would like to share, feel free to email me. Send all messages to dasme at dasme.org.
