Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

Movable Type 3.3 First Impressions

Yes, Movable Type (MT) 3.3 has been out since early July, but considering the unimpressive changes touted for it in late May, I chose to ignore it. At least, until now.
Recently, I finally decided to move my MT blogs to a new host, and instead of keeping with my older MT 3.2 install or switch […]

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

Handling Spam on Movable Type

We looked at the various anti-spam measures afforded to WordPress users yesterday, so it seems right that we should look at how Movable Type (MT) users can tackle the comment spam problem today.
But before we go on, I’ll stick my neck out and state something I’ve always wanted to say: MT’s anti-spam solutions aren’t, […]

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

Breadcrumb Navigation and Blogs: 0.02 Cents

Breadcrumb navigation refers to a navigation system where visitors are shown the “trail” to their current position, or rather, page. It can be dynamic (path-based), as in visitors are shown the exact path they took to arrive at a particular page, or static (location-based) - where the breadcrumb trail describes the hierarchy of the pages […]

Monday, June 19th, 2006

Duplicate Content in Blogs: Some Solutions

This comes a day late since “tomorrow” after my previous post discussing the duplicate content problem on blogs (which was published on the 17th) would be yesterday, but that’s what you get in World Cup season, eh?
Anyway, let’s get back to the main issue at hand for today. I said earlier that while many […]

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

Duplicate Content in Blogs: The Problem

In recent days, the issue of duplicate content is getting far more attention than it used to, sparking some enlightening discussions over at forums such as WebMasterWorld. For those out of the loop, duplicate content is primarily an SEO problem, where it is believed that search engines (SEs) penalize sites that contain too much duplicate […]

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

Movable Type 3.3’s New Features

Although Six Apart announced that Movable Type 3.3 would be ready for beta testing as early as next week yesterday, they did not touch on MT 3.3’s new features.
So, it isn’t surprising that Six Apart finally found time to do just that today. Among the announced new features are a built-in tagging system, search and […]

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Movable Type 3.3 Coming Up

Over at ProNet, it has been announced that Movable Type 3.3 is “just about ready” and will be released for beta testing as early as next week.
While the announcement doesn’t state the new features being lined up for beta testing, it’s encouraging that we’re at least seeing some sort of movement forward for MT. […]

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

The Style Contest - Movable Type Theme Competition

Over the past few months, we’ve heard of two WordPress theme competitons, one legitimate (at least for now) and another deemed a fraud.
Now, Movable Type comes into the spotlight with an official theme competition - i.e. sponsored by Six Apart (MT’s creators) - aptly named as The Style Contest, which boasts a US$17,000 prize […]