Modify your Movable Type Styles using MT Design Assistant
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For Movable Type-powered bloggers, designing blog might be easy and/or extremely difficult. You will need to deal with many template part called “modules”, “many types of templates”, etc.
But, if we use the default template system without touching the stylesheets and another template types, we probably will find benefits from the Design Styles menu. Go to Design - Styles. There are some ready-to-use styles we can use directly. If you need more styles, you can always get from MT4 Style Library.
All designs provided under Design - Style menu depend on stylesheets. So, the document structures are identical. Or, … we can say “the same”. Some elements in the sidebar can be maintained using widgets. Remember, we’re talking about the HTML structures from Movable Type default templates.
I think, the HTML structures are great for modification only using the stylesheet. Once, Six Apart hold a contest. It was about modification Movable Type design only by editing the stylesheet. You can see the archive at The Style Contest homepage.
For some bloggers, using Movable Type default templates is fine. But, what if they only want to change part of the design like font family, sizes, colors, etc. Reading many lines in the stylesheet might be confusing, right? To make this process easier, there is a handy tools called Movable Type Design Assistant. What does it do? Quoting from Movable Type Design Assistant main page:
- Lets you choose from a starting point based on common MT blog designs
- Helps you become familiar with MT’s default template set
- Assists in making style changes to your blog via CSS
- Offers live previews of edits you make to your styles
- Helps you customize individual sections of the page just by clicking
- Shows you how to apply your custom style to your blog
The step-by-step information are provided there. It’s very simple, but definitely useful. Visit MT Design Assistant at http://movabletype.org/design/assistant/
This entry receives 4 comments.
Pujiono
template-nya eh Style-nya kok mirip-mirip seperti yang di Vox.com, ya? mungkin memang yang bikin sama secara Vox dan MT khan satu induk, SA.
sampe detik ini aku belum pernah nyicipin MT punya sendiri. masih puas dengan WP.
Feb 15, 2008 at 11:57 am
Mirzha
Wew, kayanya keren.. da lama ga nyoba MT.. Dulu pernah sekitar 2 taon make MT, cuman abis di warning pihak hosting (dibilang ngabisin resource) akhirnya pindah ke WP sampe sekarang :D
Feb 16, 2008 at 5:58 am
aNdRa
D’oh..another blog engine… :-D I once accessed the MT site and it looked very slowly from here, might be caused by the small BW.
MT looks like WP yah? Great templates, maybe I’ll try them later. Thx
Feb 18, 2008 at 7:51 am
ferdi
waw ini pemilik mt.web.id rupanya! kembangin dong! saya lagi pengen banget belajar movable type! terima kasih banget udah bikin situs mt.web.id, saya merasa amat terbantu!
Feb 27, 2008 at 5:49 am