Define Default Templates for All Your Blogs
One subtle but powerful new feature in Movable Type 3.2 that we're excited about is the ability to define default templates for each new blog that's created on the system.
Once you've created the layout, styles, or feeds that you want published (or just tweaked the cool new designs we're providing), you can just save the templates in the new default template folder. Then, every time a new blog is created, it'll look exactly as you've designed. It's great for having a number of internal company weblogs that follow your design standards. And if you have a specific type of output defined, like a particular XML feed or a proprietary document format, those will automatically appear in each new blog.
As always, you can create the default templates for your blogs either within Movable Type or as files in the file system, and you can use tools Adobe GoLive and Macromedia Dreamweaver to simplify the creation of templates.
[This is part twenty-three in a series called "Our 32 Favorite Features of Movable Type 3.2".]
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