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Sams Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours [Paperback]

Molly E. Holzschlag (Author), Porter Glendinning (Author)

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Publication Date: May 28, 2004

Movable Type, a low-cost, distributed publishing software solution is helping thousands of Web site developers organize and automate the Web content management process.

In 24 well-paced chapters, the authors of Sams Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours show readers how to install, personalize, and configure Movable Type into an indispensable content management tool.

Features hands-on tutorials for finding Web hosting services, adjusting publishing preferences, customizing page templates, setting up multiple author accounts and extending the program with plug-ins and custom features, the authors show readers how to use everything from the most basic fundamentals of Movable Type to its most powerful features.

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Movable Type, a low-cost, distributed publishing software solution is helping thousands of Web site developers organize and automate the Web content management process.

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About the Authors

An author, instructor, and Web designer, Molly E. Holzschlag has authored more than 27 books related to Web design and development. She's been coined "one of the greatest digerati" and deemed one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web. There is little doubt that in the world of Web design and development, Molly is one of the most fun and vibrant Web characters around.

As a steering committee member for the Web Standards Project (WaSP), Molly works along with a group of other dedicated Web developers and designers to promote W3C recommendations. She also teaches Webmaster courses for the University of Arizona, University of Phoenix, and Pima Community College. She wrote the very popular column, "Integrated Design," for Web Techniques Magazine for the last three years of its life, and spent a year as Executive Editor of WebReview.com.

Porter Glendinning is the owner and principal consultant of Cerebellion Design, and has been doing Web design and development professionally since the bookstore's "Web section" was just a single shelf in the back corner. He is devoted to keeping the Web an open and accessible forum where anyone who wants to can have his or her voice heard, and sees education as critical to achieving that goal.

Porter is a member of the Web Standards Project Steering Committee and co-administers the Babble mailing list, a forum for discussions on advanced Web design topics. According to Porter, he is also way more fun than Molly, but nowhere near as vibrant.

Product Details

Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: Sams (May 28, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 067232590X
ISBN-13: 978-0672325908
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,187,395 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful

Superficially Useless June 26, 2005

By Joshua W. Ray

Format:Paperback

If you're wanting to learn Movable Type, this book won't help. All this book tells you is how many other books you need to buy (CSS and HTML).

See, Movable Type is a combination of web-standards HTML and CSS combined with its own proprietary tab system. So, really, it brings THREE different programming languages together (which is what makes MT so powerful). Howver, this book doesn't cover any of them.

What this book does give is a simplistic look at the different areas of MT. However, it doesn't give you enough tools to actually USE MT. For example, one would think the layout of the site would, you know, warrant a significant portion of the book. In actuality, the layout is only covered in chapters 10 and 11 and only the basics: changing colors and adding an image to the banner. That's it.

Sure, there are other issues (such as installation, migration, syndication and publishing) covered in the book but with such a minor look at the fundamentals, this book is near useless.

To put it simply: YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PROGRAM MOVABLE TYPE.

Look at Movable Type's manual, web forums, www.elise.com/mt, movalog.org and other CSS and HTML tutorials (learning CSS and HTML is CRITICAL!) for the real guide to Movable Type.

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29 of 33 people found the following review helpful

Solid MT Manual May 31, 2004

By Meryl K. Evans

Format:Paperback

Moveable Type (MT) is a blogging tool that I've been using on my site for several years. This is not a review of which software is the best, but on the book's usefulness in getting a person up to speed on MT. On that note, the authors do a first-rate job of helping the reader learn how to use MT.

As a person who is experienced in using MT, it provides me with a few tips and tricks I hadn't considered. Since I'm self-taught, I missed a few steps. Besides, there are many things you can do with MT especially when adding plug-ins.

For the person who has never touched a blog or MT in particular, the authors start at the beginning and keep things simple. Realistically, how do you write a book that meets the needs of the experienced while introducing the new users to the software? Experienced users will probably skip the first few chapters where it covers installation and setting up a blog. But the rest covering templates, plug-ins, managing archives, and adding features will more than provide enough to keep anyone busy.

Not only do the authors show how to use MT, but also they offer information on how to write and promote content. The book focuses on v2.x of MT. As I understand it, MT v3.0 doesn't have major changes and much (if not all) of the book is still valuable. You could wait around for a v3.x book, but by the time it comes out the software will have upgraded. Blogging tools upgrade very frequently and I use seldom use the word "very."

The MT online doc is one of the better blogging software documentation I've seen. The book offers accompanying pictures and additional information not found in the help doc. If you like getting all of your information in one place accompanied with visual aids, this is sure to please.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

Alas, it's out of date December 9, 2008

By that mullen guy

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

I'm certain that, like all the books in this series, this was a fine book in its time. But its time is past. There is very little at all in this book that will help any user of the newer version of Moveable Type .

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