September 14, 2004 - Using Movable Type (blogging)


Using Movable Type


Movable Type is a content management system which allows the user to publish text and images to a website without having to use HTML.

Go to http://b00mb0x.org/movetype/mt.cgi to log on.

Login using your username and password.

In the Main menu, choose which blog you wish to publish to.
B00mB0x controls the main news page of the site; new mixes, remixes and intros for articles are posted here. B00MBL0G is the actual web
log
, where the new articles are posted.

From the main editing menu you have access to most of the
publishing tools. To make a new entry in the blog, choose New Entry.

Fill in the Title field and enter the text of the new entry in the window called Entry Body. Select a piece of text and use the B, i, U and Url buttons to make the selection bold, italic, underlined or a link.
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To upload and insert an image choose Upload File on the menu to the right. Use the browse button to locate the picture you want to upload on your computer. Leave the local archive and local site fields blank. Choose Upload.
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Choose SHOW ME THE HTML. If your image is very large choose popup image, if you want it embedded in the entry choose embedded
image.
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Copy/Paste the code from the image window into the new entry.
width=412>Finish writing and uploading images until your entry is complete. At the bottom of the page Choose SAVE occasionally. Make sure the dropdown menu is set to PUBLISH not DRAFT.

Your entry should now be on the site

Posted by naz at September 14, 2004 08:23 PM


Comments

Many thanks for the help. While waiting for MT support for my new blog, I typed my question into the Google Box and yours was the third site returned.
There's a very nice lady at MT who has helped me with a serious problem that I had - I ended up switching Web hosts - and but for her I'd raise my voice a little and wonder why the manual makes no mention of 'images.'

Posted by: R J Keefe on November 24, 2004 08:12 PM

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