After almost 8 months of use with CityDesk, I’ve moved Cantoni.org over to Movable Type. CityDesk is great and I still use it for a couple of other sites, but there were a few limitations that I wanted to move past.
With my subscription to Apple’s .Mac service, I received a “special” offer to receive 100 free 4×6 prints through Kodak. With the Christmas card season coming up, we decided to give it a try. The ordering through iPhoto was certainly easy, but lacked some information (e.g., we chose “express” shipping but have no idea how long it will take). Later: I guess I should be more clear…I didn’t get any feedback from within the application, but checking email this morning shows both order confirmation and shipment messages from Apple. Very cool. Still later: The pictures arrived as expected and they…
This is another reason I wanted to give Movable Type a try: the ability to post from other software applications. I’m posting this from w.bloggar which is a VB Windows app that can talk to Movable Type through its XML-RPC interface. Cool!
My experiment with Movable Type is going well, so now I’m preparing to change over from CityDesk. Here are a few things I’ve needed to change or tweak so far, just for my future reference: Turned on Individual, Monthly, and Category archives and tweaked their templates Changed references to each posting to be a permalink Removed the calendar from the main index page Changed the RSS feed templates as suggested on the RSS Validator site Changed the monthly archives to be stored by folder (e.g., 2002/12/index.html) Changed the category archives to be stored by folder (e.g., site/index.html). This will make…
Like most people, I’ve had a Yahoo! ID and mail account for a long time. In addition to being useful for throw-away things like registering for software downloads, I use it for all of the Yahoo! Groups that I’ve subscribed to.