Results tagged “Templates and Styles”
An Interview: Apperceptive, Boing Boing and MT4
As we’ve mentioned on the Movable Type news blog, today Boing Boing, the immensely popular “Directory of Wonderful Things”, relaunched on the Movable Type 4.0 platform. There were a lot of people and organizations involved in the effort, but one...
50 Ways to Be a Better Designer
From Computer Arts, 50 ways to become a better designer. Usually, these lists are a lazy way to fill up an article, but this one's pretty good: Despite their very different backgrounds, many of our designers offered the same advice...
Connecting your blog to Skype
Millions of people around the world use Skype to talk to each other, and since blogs are all about helping people communicate better, we're glad to see a number of new efforts making it easier to plug into Skype right...
Beautiful Photo Galleries in Movable Type
Doug Bowman's made an amazing new set of Movable Type templates available on Stopdesign, simply titled Photo Gallery Templates. The power and flexibility of the Movable Type platform is really shown off in Doug's work, which uses almost twenty (!)...
Movable Type Cheat Sheet
One of the great things about Movable Type being localized into a number of languages and having such a broad international presence is that we get great contributions from our community around the world. The latest contribution is Jörg Petermann's...
sIFR 2.0 Released
Mike Davidson has just announced the release of sIFR 2.0. This popular combination of slick javascript and smart use of Flash lets you choose custom fonts to display headlines on a website, for situations where the presentation of your page...
Firefox to make your life easier
Most of you who are doing heavy web development work have told us that you're using Firefox as your browser of choice, and if so, there's a few absolutely indispensable extensions that we'd recommend adding to your toolkit. (If you're...
LiveJournal Style Contest Voting Open
The entries for the 2005 LiveJournal Style Contest have been posted, and votes are now being taken. Go pick your favorites and help someone in the LJ design community win some cool prizes....
Adobe GoLive CS2's blog template support
We've just announced that Adobe is supporting our weblog template tags in the new version of Adobe GoLive CS2, and we wanted to explain in a bit more depth to ProNet members what motivated the effort to create these new...
LiveJournal Style Contest
There's one week left if you want to enter the LiveJournal 2005 Style Contest. If you're familiar with LiveJournal's S2 style language or want to learn it, now you've got a good incentive to get started. There's the chance to...
Veer on Personality
We love the creative ideas that come from the folks at Veer, not least because of their great Movable Type-powered blog The Skinny, but their latest project is another really great way to get your creative juices flowing. Personality is...
Verdana Meets Its Match
One area that nearly everyone agrees that Microsoft excels in is the typefaces they distribute to web users. Poynter Online shows us the future of Microsoft's font collection with screenshots of the new family of fonts expected to be released...
Making AJAX work for everyone
With all the growing excitement around AJAX web development and the new toolkits becoming available, it's important to make sure this new breed of web applications is available for everyone who uses the web. Some useful new references that can...
Interview with Todd Dominey
AIGA (the American Insitute of Graphic Arts) has a compelling interview with Todd Dominey on their Los Angeles chapter's blog today. Known in the blogging and design communities for his popular blog What Do I Know, Todd's got some great...
AT&T Redesign case study
Joe D'Andrea just posted a useful writeup of the process of creating a new standards-based design for AT&T. There's an extensive list of the techniques and tools used as well, complete with links if you'd like to implement similar tricks...
Giving Credit
Steve Outing of Poynter Online says, "On Group Blogs, the Writers Come First". Steve's pointing out a design shortcoming in many group blogs, which list an author's name at the bottom of the post. While it's a subject that could...
StopDesign Movable Type Photo Gallery
Doug Bowman of StopDesign has posted an in-depth tutorial, complete with downloadable templates and screenshots of the end result, explaining how to create a beautiful and functional photo gallery using Movable Type. The results are astounding. It's nice to see...
Simple Character Entity Reference
Over at Simian Design, an extremely useful Simple Character Entity Reference. Great for keeping your masculine ordinal indicators distinct from your pilcrow signs....
Subtraction's New Design
Khoi Vinh's new design for Subtraction has gotten a good amount of well-deserved attention. It's an elegant and spare design that's very distinct from most Movable Type weblogs, and Khoi does a good job of explaining some of the thought...
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...
