Category: Customizing

First of all, I am rewriting this because I drafted it yesterday and then needed to reboot my browser (it was Mozilla at the time) and forgot/failed/missed the chance to copy-and-paste the draft to a safer place. In the past I’d have used kung-log, now ecto, to keep the user experience a little more desktoppy,…

I’m trying to get the hang of the mod_rewrite module of my Apache web server. This enables me to trap certain URLs or patterns of URLs and rewrite them to point somewhere different on the back end. This has two practical benefits: It makes migration from an old path or permalink scheme much easier to…

TypePadista community catalyst and culture kitchen creator Liza Sabater is having a ball with TypePad and documenting what she learns as she goes on her TP blog, burudanga. In fact, I may have to add burudanga to my short sidebar of other metablog feeds. I just landed on b u r u n d a…

Dylan Tweney reports on his own fairly ingenious blogroll solution. He has set up his blogroll (with categories, no less) as a new blog in Movable Type and even used the extended-entry capability as an optional RSS-feed link field for his blogroll entries. I like this approach and may adopt it! At this point you’re…

Brainstorms and Raves gathers a number of resources to help you generate Friendly, Lasting URLs. [via daily Anil]

I wasn’t sure if TypePad had its own tagbase or used the same tags as Movable Type. It appears that the latter is the case. For help integrating MT tags into TP, check out authenticgeek’s Howto: Use MT Tags in TypePad! (the first in a series). Meanwhile, the “Six Apart is to blogging as Apple…