The Style Archive: For Movable Type, TypePad and LiveJournal

All of these styles can be fantastic assets for your blog, but figuring out how to get them from this site to your own blog can sometimes feel overwhelming. Fortunately for Movable Type users, Stylecatcher makes the whole process painless, especially now that Movable Type now comes with Stylecatcher built right in.

The process looks a little something like this: 1. Make sure you're running the latest MT install, 2. Click 'Select a Design using StyleCatcher' from your blog's main menu, 3. Put 'http://www.thestylearchive.com/browse/' in the Theme URL field. Then all you have to do is find the theme you like, choose your blog in the drop down menu and click 'Apply Selected Design'. The theme files are downloaded and the CSS is automatically updated and rebuilt. Check out your blog, and don't forget to refresh.

If you're not so keen on having to wade through them all, we've also set it up so that you can specify an individual theme's url on the Stylecatcher page. For instance, typing 'http://www.thestylearchive.com/designs/web_2oz_emerald_city' in the Theme URL field would just show that particular theme.

Posted by Jesse Gardner on April 12, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (6)