Overview
If Movable Type can do it, you can do it too
By its very nature, the Web encourages change at a frenetic pace. Movable Type helps you manage that pace, and this is your indispensable guide to installing and using the most popular server-based personal publishing tool. From exploring Movable Type's template-driven publishing system to developing your own plug-ins, here's what you need to know to create and maintain sites as adaptable as the Web itself.
Inside, you'll find what you need to know about Movable Type
* Prepare your Web server and install Movable Type
* Set up and configure a weblog, using archives and categories to create a more sophisticated site
* Add visual elements with photos and graphics
* Design a weblog with templates and use template tags
* Establish communication among sites using trackback pings
* Add search capabilities and import content from other blogs
* Develop Perl-based plug-ins to enhance Movable Type
* Configure Movable Type to receive and manage comments from site visitors
* See what's new in Movable Type 3.1 in a bonus Movable Type 3.1 appendix
Synopsis
Intended for the home hobbyist, this guide introduces the Movable Type weblog publishing software for creating personal journal web sites. Cadenhead (buzzword.com) shows how to use templates similar to HTML, share work with the RSS and Atom syndication formats, communicate with the software over the XML-RPC web services standard, and extend capabilities with plug-in scripts. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewMovable Type makes powerful web content management accessible to nearly anyone. It’s cheap (a personal, single-user version is free.) But you need to know quite a bit to set it up, and then use it to the fullest. Rogers Cadenhead walks you through all that, simply and in plain English.
Step by step, he covers preparing your web server, getting the needed infrastructure and security in place, initializing the software, and quickly customizing its default site. You’ll walk through writing entries, organizing weblogs, publishing images. Next, he shows how to build template-driven sites that can be updated and redesigned in practically no time.
Cadenhead covers everything you need to build a world-class blog or news site, from trackback links to search, importing Blogger entries to syndication. The software’s impressive. This book makes it far more usable. Bill Camarda, from the January 2005 Read Only