New Template and Style Resources

Working with Movable Type or TypePad templates? Have we got the goods for you. Two good reference sites if you're looking for designs are the new Blog Fashions site and the classic Movable Style site. As always, the good news with these templates is that the default stylesheets for TypePad and Movable Type are compatible, as are almost all of the template tags that both systems use.

Not sure what each template in your Movable Type blog does? Elise has a tutorial appropriately entitled "What Do All These Templates Do?" that you'll want to check out.

If you just need to get a copy of the default templates to figure out where to start from, we've (finally!) updated the default template page to include all the files that are generated in a stock Movable Type 3.1 install.

By default, we don't mess with your templates or weblog configuration when you upgrade Movable Type, so you might be missing some of the cleanup and improvements that the new templates feature if you are still working with your templates from an older version.