FYI, the .txt file for the Two Column Left Sidebar Individual Entry Archive page doesn't exist when you click on the link; it's also absent from the .zip file (I assume then that it's not in the tar/gz file either). :)
Yes it's not in the tar/gz file either.
Whoops that should be fixed now. Also I fixed a bug with the Two Column Right Individual Entry Archives. Thanks for the heads up.
Hi Everyone,
As a user of MT I've always lamented the fact that the basic templates MT provides didn't have persistent columns between the "main index" and the "archives" (individual/catagory/monthly). I think most MT users and their readers would like their columns to always be seen.
I'm not a designer, only a humble user, so I'm not sure if this is possible within MT's architecture to do this. If it is however, it would be a welcome design change that many people would take advantage of.
Thanks for hearing me out.
The Individual Entry Archives for the one and three column designs are giving me not found errors.
I didn't check if they're in the .zips.
Sorry that should be fixed.
...um... is there some arcane Movable Type reason these are .txt instead of .html? Renaming every one of these to .html is kinda obnoxious on a Mac. (I wish I could tell OSX that I know what I'm doing with respect to file extensions once and for all.)
(Tip: you can rename them with Textmate's project drawer.)
And why do they point to /www.thestylecontest.com/templates/base-weblog.css instead of just including a copy of that for ease of hacking them with your net off?
Also pls. include userpics and such so that LJ-centric designers don't have to switch to Bloggish and pull that out of the source, and so that MT-centric designers don't make something accidentally ugly with 100x100 images dropped into the posts...
Hi Egypt, the linked files are included above as text files so that they don't load in your browser. The files in the archives were .txt simply because we weren't thinking.
So we've done the following:
* We've combined all of the archives into one file (zip and tar.gz flavors)
* We've included base-weblog.css in the directory for each layout and changed the HTML to point to that file
* We changed the .txt files in the archive to have .html extensions.
Thanks for pointing all of that out and please let us know if there's anything else we can do to make it easier for you to create some killer designs.
In all of the .html files (in the zip file, not sure about the tar/gz), this line is messed up:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<link rel="stylesheet" href="base-weblog.css" type="text/css" />" type="text/css" />
That last bit (" type="text/css" />) renders as text on the page.
Just wanted to know if there was a reason why the 'input' for "checkbox" was nested inside of the 'label' for same?
I just noticed that in a just about all template files, the paragraph immediately following a list-element (ordered or unordered) are not enclosed within a <p> tag which would therefore fail any validation and break any default <p> style. Can someone let me know if this is deliberate by design, or simply an error in the template files?
While I'm here, there are also absolute references to the userpic.gif file throughout the templates (/images/userpic.gif), perhaps these should be changed to relative (images/userpic.gif) references.
I think it's deliberate. Livejournal doesn't apply paragraphs automatically -- it uses double line-breaks -- so it's really not safe to apply any styles to the
tag. You can never rely on end users to post valid code.
Oh, and that was supposed to be a < p > tag. Worked fine on the preview. Meh.
Is there a way to test styles on Movable Type or TypePad if you don't have an account? I tried signing up, but it seems you have to pay. :|
Also how do you get it work in livejournal? I've tried testing styles other people did in my journal and I can't get it to appear in the journal the way it looks in the preview.
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