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9780672325908

Sams Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours

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    9780672325908

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    067232590X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-01-01
  • Publisher: Sams
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Summary

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will be able to implement an effective, inexpensive, and feature-rich system for building, administering, and maintaining Web sites using Movable Type publishing software. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn the essentials of Movable Type from the ground up. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Molly E. Holzschlag is an instructor, Web designer, and author of more than 30 books Porter Glendinning is the owner and principal consultant of Cerebellion Design

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(2)
PART I Getting Started with Movable Type 3(186)
HOUR 1 Preparing Great Content for the Web
5(20)
Planning Your Content
5(5)
Defining Intent
6(2)
Defining Your Audience
8(1)
What Are Your Goals?
9(1)
Exploring Hosting Options
10(4)
People with an Existing Web Site
10(1)
New Web Site
11(1)
Hosting Options
12(2)
Organizing Needed Software
14(9)
Text and Code Editing Tools
14(3)
FTP Clients and Compression Utilities
17(2)
Imaging Software and Resources
19(4)
Summary
23(1)
Q&A
23(1)
Workshop
24(1)
Quiz
24(1)
Answers
24(1)
Activity
24(1)
HOUR 2 Installing Movable Type
25(20)
Preparing for and Downloading Movable Type
26(5)
Requirements for Movable Type
26(1)
Movable Type Download Versions
27(4)
Installing Movable Type
31(7)
Uploading and Configuring Movable Type Files and Directories
32(3)
Setting File Permissions
35(3)
Testing, Initializing, and Running Movable Type
38(5)
Understanding Common Install Problems
39(1)
Testing the System
39(2)
Initializing, Securing, and Running Movable Type
41(2)
Summary
43(1)
Q&A
43(1)
Workshop
43(2)
Quiz
43(1)
Answers
43(1)
Activities
44(1)
HOUR 3 Setting Standard Preferences
45(24)
Setting Up a Weblog in Movable Type
45(7)
Logging In and Setting Profile Preferences
46(4)
Creating Your First Log and Setting Core Preferences
50(2)
Setting General Preferences
52 (7)
Adding Log Description, Number of Entries, and Time Language Display
53 (2)
Setting Entry Order, Customizing Text Formatting, and Configuring Default Post Status
55(2)
Configuring Excerpt Values, Sanitize Spec, and a Welcome Message
57(2)
Adding a Creative Commons License
59(2)
Setting Archive, Notification, and Comment Preferences
61(3)
Options for Archiving, Notification and Publicity, and Comments
61(1)
Setting Up Basic Archiving Preferences
62(1)
Configuring Notification, Promotional, and TrackBack Preferences
63(1)
Setting Commenting Preferences
64(2)
Comment Preference Options
64(1)
Configuring Comment Preferences
65(1)
Rebuilding the Site
66(1)
Summary
67(1)
Q&A
67(1)
Workshop
68(1)
Quiz
68(1)
Answers
68(1)
Activities
68(1)
HOUR 4 Adjusting Your Editing Preferences
69(16)
Getting Ready to Use Movable Type Editors
69(1)
Learning and Customizing the Edit Entry Screen
70(7)
Basic View
71(2)
Advanced View
73(3)
Custom View
76(1)
Configuring Advanced Editing Options
77(4)
Button Bar
77(2)
Power-Editing Mode
79(2)
Summary
81(1)
Q&A
82(1)
Workshop
82(3)
Quiz
82(1)
Answers
83(1)
Activities
83(2)
HOUR 5 Creating, Editing, Searching, and Deleting Entries
85(22)
Working with Movable Type Entries
86(7)
Creating Entries
86(7)
Editing Entries
93(4)
Editing Exercises
93(4)
Adding Search and Replace for Entries
97(4)
Movable Type Search and Replace Features
98(3)
Keeping a Clean House
101(3)
About Deletions
101(3)
Summary
104(1)
Q&A
104(1)
Workshop
105(2)
Quiz
105(1)
Answers
105(1)
Activities
105(2)
HOUR 6 Managing Archives
107(22)
Archiving Using Movable Type
108(12)
Setting Archive and Extension Type
108(2)
Examining the Archive Screen
110(1)
Archiving by Date
111(5)
Archiving by Category
116(3)
Archiving by Individual Entry
119(1)
Adding Multiple and Custom Archive Options
120(7)
Managing Multiple Archives
120(5)
Customizing Archive Paths and Filenames
125(2)
Summary
127(1)
Q&A
127(1)
Workshop
128(1)
Quiz
128(1)
Answers
128(1)
Activities
128(1)
HOUR 7 Creating Categories
129(20)
Category Types
129(3)
Exploring the Category-Editing Features
132(4)
Creating Categories
136(5)
Naming Your Category
136(1)
Adding a Category on the Fly
137(2)
Adding a Category Description
139(1)
Renaming a Category
139(1)
Deleting a Category
140(1)
Configuring Categories for TrackBack
141(3)
URLs to Ping
141(1)
Accepting Incoming Pings
142(1)
Protecting Pings with a Passphrase
143(1)
Applying Categories
144(3)
Applying a Primary Category
144(1)
Applying Multiple Categories
145(2)
Summary
147(1)
Q&A
147(1)
Workshop
148(1)
Quiz
148(1)
Answers
148(1)
Activities
148(1)
HOUR 8 Managing Multiple Authors
149(18)
Planning for Multiple Authors
150(1)
Adding Authors
150(9)
Creating the Author Entry
151(5)
Author Permissions
156(3)
Editing an Author
159(2)
Editing an Author Entry
159(1)
Deleting an Entry
160(1)
Revoking Permissions and Removing Authors
161(3)
Changing an Author's Permissions
161(2)
Deleting an Author
163(1)
Summary
164(1)
Q&A
165(1)
Workshop
165(2)
Quiz
165(1)
Answers
165(1)
Activities
166(1)
HOUR 9 Migrating to Movable Type
167(22)
Understanding the Migration Process
168(3)
Exporting Entries
171(8)
Exporting from Movable Type
171(1)
Exporting from TypePad
172(1)
Exporting from Other Weblog Tools
173(6)
Importing Entries
179(5)
Managing Author Names
182(1)
Deleting the Import File
183(1)
Recovering from Problems
183(1)
Summary
184(1)
Q&A
185(1)
Workshop
186(5)
Quiz
186(1)
Answers
187(1)
Activity
187(2)
PART II Working with Templates 189(62)
HOUR 10 Using Movable Type Templates
191(22)
About Templates in Movable Type
192(7)
Exploring Index Templates
193(4)
Examining Archive Templates
197(1)
Understanding Miscellaneous Templates
198(1)
Using Movable Type Template Designs
199(11)
Changing the Main Index Style
200(8)
Modifying Template Features
208(2)
Exploring Other Available Templates
210(2)
Summary
212(1)
Q&A
212(1)
Workshop
212(1)
Quiz
212(1)
Answers
212(1)
Activities
212(1)
HOUR 11 Customizing Movable Type Templates
213(22)
About Markup and CSS for the Web
214(4)
HTML and XHTML
214(2)
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
216(2)
Modifying Your Template Styles
218(13)
Changing the Banner
219(3)
Selecting Other Fonts
222(1)
Adding an Image to the Banner
223(8)
Summary
231(1)
Q&A
231(1)
Workshop
232(3)
Quiz
232(1)
Answers
232(1)
Activities
233(2)
HOUR 12 Adding Custom Designs to Movable Type
235(16)
Building a Custom Master Index Template
236(13)
Adding Required Markup
237(1)
Adding Markup for Content
238(3)
Linking and Importing Style
241(5)
Adding Movable Type Tags
246(3)
Adding the Template to Movable Type
249(1)
Summary
249(1)
Q&A
250(1)
Workshop
250(3)
Quiz
250(1)
Answers
250(1)
Activity
250(1)
PART III Adding Features for Your Visitors 251(116)
HOUR 13 Providing Public Search
253(24)
Understanding the Basics
254(1)
Working with Text Search Forms
255(9)
Adding a Text Search Form to a Page
261(3)
Working with New Comment Search Forms
264(3)
Adding a New Comment Search Form to a Page
265(2)
Understanding Search Templates
267(7)
Customizing the Standard Templates
268(2)
Creating Your Own Search Template
270(4)
Summary
274(1)
Q&A
275(1)
Workshop
275(2)
Quiz
275(1)
Answers
275(1)
Activities
275(2)
HOUR 14 Getting Started with Comments
277(16)
Comment Basics
277(2)
Setting Comment Preferences
279(4)
Controlling Comments Sitewide
279(2)
Enabling or Disabling Comments for an Entry
281(2)
Implementing Comments
283(8)
Inserting Comments Inline
283(5)
Using Pop-up Windows
288(3)
Summary
291(1)
Q&A
291(1)
Workshop
291(2)
Quiz
291(1)
Answers
291(1)
Activities
292(1)
HOUR 15 Taking Comments Further
293(16)
Allowing Visitors to Preview Their Comments
293(6)
Handling Comment Errors
299(1)
Managing Comments
300(6)
Editing a Comment
300(3)
Deleting One or More Comments
303(1)
Banning an IP Address
303(2)
Removing an IP Address from the Ban List
305(1)
Summary
306(1)
Q&A
307(1)
Workshop
307(2)
Quiz
307(1)
Answers
307(1)
Activities
308(1)
HOUR 16 Using TrackBack
309(20)
Understanding TrackBack
309(3)
How TrackBack Works
311(1)
Sending a TrackBack Ping
312(5)
Receiving TrackBack Pings
317(2)
Setting the Default TrackBack Preferences
317(1)
Allowing or Refusing Pings for an Entry
318(1)
Displaying Received TrackBack Pings
319(5)
Generating an RSS Feed of Received TrackBack Pings
323(1)
Managing Received TrackBack Pings
324(2)
Summary
326(1)
Q&A
326(1)
Workshop
326(3)
Quiz
326(1)
Answers
327(1)
Activities
327(2)
HOUR 17 Doing More with TrackBack
329(20)
Using TrackBack Auto-Discovery
329(12)
Making Your Site Auto-Discovery-Friendly
331(2)
Sending Pings with Auto-Discovery
333(3)
Using an Auto-Discovery Bookmarklet to Post to your Site
336(5)
Pinging Categories
341(5)
Allowing a Category to Receive Pings
342(2)
Sending Category Pings
344(1)
Displaying Category Pings
345(1)
Summary
346(1)
Q&A
346(1)
Workshop
346(3)
Quiz
346(1)
Answers
347(1)
Activities
347(2)
HOUR 18 Using Movable Type's Email Features
349(18)
Sending Update Notifications
349(11)
The Subscription Form
350(3)
Managing Your Notification List
353(1)
Advanced Notification List Management
354(4)
Sending Notifications
358(2)
Adding a Mail This Entry Feature
360(5)
Setting Up the Form
362(3)
Summary
365(1)
Q&A
365(1)
Workshop
366(3)
Quiz
366(1)
Answers
366(1)
Activity
366(1)
PART IV Beyond the Basics 367(124)
HOUR 19 Scrubbing Content with Sanitize
369(14)
Understanding Sanitize
369(3)
Movable Type's Sanitize Defaults
371(1)
Why Sanitize Incoming Data?
371(1)
Changing Your Sanitize Settings
372(8)
Setting Your Own Global Sanitize Spec
374(1)
Changing the Sanitize Spec for a Single Weblog
374(2)
Overriding the Sanitize Settings in Template Tags
376(4)
Summary
380(1)
Q&A
380(1)
Workshop 381
Quiz
381(1)
Answers
381(1)
Activities
381(2)
HOUR 20 Uploading Files in Movable Type
383(18)
The Basics of Uploading
383(2)
Why Not Just Use FTP?
384(1)
Regulating the Size of Uploaded Files
385(1)
Uploading Non-Image Files
385(6)
Creating a New Entry from an Upload
387(2)
Manually Inserting a Link to the Uploaded File
389(2)
Special Features for Uploading Images
391(7)
Posting an Embedded Image
391(2)
Generating an Image Pop-Up Link
393(2)
Creating a Thumbnail Image
395(3)
Summary
398(1)
Q&A
398(1)
Workshop
399(2)
Quiz
399(1)
Answers
399(1)
Activities
399(2)
HOUR 21 Using Desktop Clients with Movable Type
401(24)
Zempt
402(4)
Installing and Configuring Zempt
402(2)
Using Zempt
404(2)
SharpMT
406(5)
Installing and Configuring SharpMT
406(2)
Using SharpMT
408(3)
ecto
411(4)
Installing and Configuring ecto
411(1)
Using ecto
412(3)
w.bloggar
415(3)
Installing and Configuring w.bloggar
415(2)
Using w.bloggar
417(1)
Frequency
418(3)
Installing and Configuring Frequency
418(2)
Using Frequency
420(1)
Summary
421(1)
Q&A
421(1)
Workshop
422(3)
Quiz
422(1)
Answers
422(1)
Activities
423(2)
HOUR 22 Movable Type Plug-Ins
425(24)
Movable Type Plug-In Basics
425(2)
A Simple Plug-In: NicknameLink
427(5)
Installing the NicknameLink Plug-In
427(1)
Using the NicknameLink Plug-In
428(4)
A More Complex Plug-In: MT-Blacklist
432(15)
Installing MT-Blacklist
432(2)
Troubleshooting MT-Blacklist's Installation
434(3)
Configuring MT-Blacklist
437(4)
Using MT-Blacklist
441(6)
Summary
447(1)
Q&A
447(1)
Workshop
448(1)
Quiz
448(1)
Answers
448(1)
Activities
448(1)
HOUR 23 Promoting Your Content
449(18)
Web Sites That Can Promote Your Weblog
450(9)
movabletype.org
450(2)
Blogdex
452(3)
Blog Universe
455(2)
RootBlog
457(2)
Weblog Rings
459(3)
Blogmania
460(1)
Special-Interest Weblog Rings
460(2)
Newsfeeds
462(1)
Summary
463(1)
Q&A
464(1)
Workshop
464(3)
Quiz
464(1)
Answers
464(1)
Activities
465(2)
HOUR 24 TypePad, Movable Type Upgrades, and Movable Type Pro
467(24)
TypePad
468(18)
Comparing Service Features
469(2)
Setting Up an Account
471(1)
Creating a TypePad Weblog
472(2)
Configuring Your TypePad Weblog
474(4)
Selecting a Design
478(1)
Modifying Your TypePad Template
479(4)
Adding an Entry
483(3)
Movable Type Upgrades
486(2)
Movable Type Pro
488(1)
Summary
488(1)
Q&A
488(5)
Quiz
489(1)
Answers
489(1)
Activities
489(2)
PART V Appendixes 491(40)
APPENDIX A System Requirements, Upgrades, and Licensing Information
493(6)
System Requirements for Movable Type
493(4)
Web Server Requirements
494(1)
Necessary Tools
495(2)
Upgrading Movable Type
497(1)
Movable Type Licensing
497(2)
Noncommercial Licensing Requirements
498(1)
Commercial Licensing Requirements
498(1)
APPENDIX B Template Tag Reference
499(24)
Weblog Tags
500(1)
Entry Tags
501(5)
Archive Tags
506(3)
Category Tags
509(1)
Calendar Tags
509(1)
Search Results Tags
510(1)
Comment Tags
511(3)
TrackBack Tags
514(1)
Miscellaneous Tags
515(3)
Global Tag Attributes
518(2)
Formatting Dates
520(3)
APPENDIX C Advanced Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
523(8)
Installing Required and Additional Modules
523(3)
Installing Required Modules
524(2)
Adding Database Options
526(1)
Installing Berkeley DB
526(1)
Other Database Options
526(1)
Adding Optional Modules
527(2)
Adding LWP::UserAgent
527(1)
Adding SOAP::Lite
528(1)
Adding File::Temp
528(1)
About Image::Magick
529(1)
Troubleshooting Common Problems-Where to Get Additional Support
529(2)
Index 531

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