I've reset the style of the weblog to use a different one of the default styles offered by Moveable Type. I like the cleaner look. To do this, I had to edit the stylesheet used by Moveable Type which controls the appearance of the web pages generated by MT. First I had to locate and copy one of the default stylesheets (expressed in a language called CSS- Cascading Style Sheets) and then locate the template used to store the style sheet MT uses and paste the new CSS into it, replacing what was there previously. For someone used to modern desktop user interfaces, this method is a giant step backward and felt fraught with risk. Fortunately, the MT documentation is straight-forward. It appears to me as though everything worked. I'm sure readers will quickly let me know what doesn't look right.
Posted by mitch@osafoundation.org at August 02, 2003 01:58 PMFor what it's worth, we agree that changing styles in MT should be much easier, and we've already started improving this in our TypePad service. Those changes should make their way down to Movable Type Pro in the next few months.
Posted by: Anil Dash at August 2, 2003 02:10 PM
Great. Looking forward to the new and improved version and trying it out.
Posted by: Mitch Kapor at August 2, 2003 03:58 PM
I'm not sure if the weblog style change is the cause of this, but now the text in your weblog refuses to wrap in IE 5.50.4807.2300 (at work) and IE 6.?? (can't remember the version) that I use at home. Makes for lots of scrolling back and forth when I want to read your stuff. Is anyone else seeing this?
Posted by: Chris Keith at August 22, 2003 09:28 AM