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Movable Type is a blogging platform that I’ve also used as a content management system. See Martin’s Movable Type blog posts for tips on plug-ins, extending RSS options and working with themes and CSS.

Essential links: the Movable Type homepage and support site. For design purposes the style library and style contest are a great source of off-the-shelf templates.


Categories:

Design
Various links to articles on design, search engine optimization techniques, etc.

Firefox
I highly recommend the Firefox web browser. I try to make sure my favorite extensions are listed here.

Google
Google is always coming up with new services and geeks are always mashing up new tricks.

Media
I don’t do too much video or audio but my cheap digital camera has a video mode and I’ve been a happy user of YouTube since shortly after it launched. Here are my video and audio media links.

Movable Type
Most of my sites run on the Movable Type blogging platform, which I also use as a Content Management System. These links take you to some of my favorite extensions and hacks.

RSS
The heart of the new tech movement is RSS which usually stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” It’s a format that allows different websites to pass along time-bound data, such as blog posts, news items, etc.

SEO
Everyone wants to know how to show up in search engines. SEO is one of the most mis-understood concepts on the web.

Web 2.0
I love a lot of the newer internet services that allow collaboration and easy integration with one another. Dubbed the “Web 2.0” movement, these are some sites I use. My blog aggregator site uses a lot of this services, and my Powered By page there shows how I’ve used them.

 

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Movable Love

A showcase of interesting and beautiful sites powered by Movable Type

Six Apart sells its LiveJournal service to the Russians

"The company continues to lead in the blogging and social media industry with the Movable Type Publishing Platform, the TypePad hosted blogging service, and Vox, a free blogging service for friends and families."

Ben Trott's reblogging plug-in

Refeed builds reblogging into Movable Type: configure a list of RSS and Atom feeds that you want to pull in to your blog, and new posts in the feeds will be spliced into your main blog automatically.

Installing Movable Type: The Quick Way

Instructions for unpacking the files on the server

Movable Type on business blogs

"Most people who want to publish a page on their intranet at work are still stuck asking a geek down the hall to make the changes, and then waiting 3 weeks for it to happen... Those people deserve a tool as powerful and simple as blogs..."

Tech Crunch: Movable Type 4.0 Beta Launches, Platform To Be Open Sourced

"The decision to enforce licensing with the release of MT 3.0 caused widespread outrage in 2004 and in many ways was a tipping point that delivered WordPress from relative obscurity to being the popular blogging CMS it is today."

TypePad now has "Pages," non-blog content management

I've been doing this for years on Movable Type using a hack, why has it taken Six Apart so long to figure out this is a useful feature and when will it come to Movable Type? Why are they leaving the innovation to Wordpress?

EnhancedEntryEditing: WYSIWYG editing for MovableType

EnhancedEntryEditing adds TinyMCE, a WYSIWYG editor, to the Entry Body and Extended Entry fields.

Flickr Photos - MT (Movable Type) Hacks

Flickr photos on MT installations

Running Movable Type Under FastCGI

Keeps MT in memory so that files are rebuilt more quickly without spawning multiple processes. Good for holding down spam attacks. Might this solve mt-search problems when Google visits?

MTAmazon integrates Amazon into your MT site

A Movable Type plugin that allows to query and display results from Amazon on your weblog.

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