Blog Facts: November 2007 Archives
I got my main blog template back! There are still plenty more things to do:
- Individual entry pages need to be "updated" to have my old "look and feel".
- My main archive page needs to be restored (I don't really like having all my archive links on the main page).
- My WIP blog that provides the feeds for my WIP listing in the side bar needs to be brought back online.
- Mourn the loss of my pop-up comment entry box -- it's not really supported by MT anymore
Add the Tag Cloud widget to my sidebar. The whole widget thing is a real improvement to template maintenance in MT4.That one was easier than I thought. It's already done you can scroll down and look in my side bar to see it in action.- Work on re-factoring my template a little bit to conform better to the MT4 templating system, which should make my templates easier to maintain.
- Back up the whole shebang
Yes, the blog is in transition... again. Last night I lost control of my senses and decided that I needed to figure out why MT4 wasn't working correctly. And I actually couldn't get to sleep until I was sure it actually would do all the basic things that it needed to do. Clearly, I am now certifiable.
MT4 is not bad, it's just a significant shift structurally and I did some dumb, blind things without thinking when I installed it. I have been kicking myself for deciding to upgrade when what I had was working fine. The lure of shiny new features is just too much to resist sometimes. Some days I am just my own worst enemy when it comes to wanting to play with new toys. In the end, I ended up "starting fresh" by creating a brand new blog and importing all of the stuff from the old blog into the new one. And there are still a ton of issues that I still have to resolve. Sigh. But at least you can read it and I can post to it, which is an improvement. The look and feel of my blog is now just one of Movable Types standard on board styles... I miss my old template already. But hopefully I'll be able to resurrect things as time goes on. In the meantime, it's nice just to have a blog that actually functions.
Right now I'm trying to look on the bright side and see this as an opportunity to learn something new and to clean up a bunch of old cruft that had accumulated in my template. I'm hoping that once I get to start playing with some of the new widgets and toys in MT4 that I will be happier about the whole situation. I do have to say that I like the image preview functions much better...
However, the moral of this story is most definitely the old engineer's adage: if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Yes, I know I am having problems with the comments... they want you to be authorized to log comment... even I am not authorized at this point, so don't take it personally... more MT4 issues.
MT4 is not bad, it's just a significant shift structurally and I did some dumb, blind things without thinking when I installed it. I have been kicking myself for deciding to upgrade when what I had was working fine. The lure of shiny new features is just too much to resist sometimes. Some days I am just my own worst enemy when it comes to wanting to play with new toys. In the end, I ended up "starting fresh" by creating a brand new blog and importing all of the stuff from the old blog into the new one. And there are still a ton of issues that I still have to resolve. Sigh. But at least you can read it and I can post to it, which is an improvement. The look and feel of my blog is now just one of Movable Types standard on board styles... I miss my old template already. But hopefully I'll be able to resurrect things as time goes on. In the meantime, it's nice just to have a blog that actually functions.
Right now I'm trying to look on the bright side and see this as an opportunity to learn something new and to clean up a bunch of old cruft that had accumulated in my template. I'm hoping that once I get to start playing with some of the new widgets and toys in MT4 that I will be happier about the whole situation. I do have to say that I like the image preview functions much better...
However, the moral of this story is most definitely the old engineer's adage: if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Yes, I know I am having problems with the comments... they want you to be authorized to log comment... even I am not authorized at this point, so don't take it personally... more MT4 issues.
