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Hacking the UI to make Movable Type better

One of the great things about Movable Type is the multitude of ways it provides for folks to modify the core user interface without disturbing existing functionality. In fact Movable Type allows virtually anyone to: easily skin any screen in... Continue Reading  

Obtaining total transparency into your publishing system

Movable Type has proven time and time again that it can help some of the Internet's most influential and most innovative blogs become some of the largest as well. Not every content management system is up to the task of... Continue Reading  

Sandbox for Movable Type

Ever thought about radically changing the look of your blog without much design work? Are you a designer who likes to work in semantic HTML and do amazing things with CSS? Maybe you’re moving from WordPress to Movable Type and... Continue Reading  

Creating Drop-Down Navigation with Movable Type

A common question from Movable Type users and designers is, "how do I create nice navigation for my web site?" The Professional Website template set and even Mid-Century have navigation build in. But there are Movable Type themes out there... Continue Reading  

Another hallmark design for Movable Type

A lot of Movable Type users are about to be given another great reason to upgrade to Movable Type 4.2: the release of the Mid-Century template set by Jim Ramsey. Jim also designed the Professional Website template set (formally known... Continue Reading  

Collating and displaying content from multiple sources using Movable Type

Nick O'Neill just published a great screencast and howto about using a plugin few people know about: Mark Pasc's Order plugin for Movable Type. Order is a plugin that allows one to build and merge a list of content from... Continue Reading