MT3: First Take
A new version of MovableType was released today. To say the announcement, which included a surprising twist with respect to licensing, was controversial would be quite the understatement. Suffice to say, a lot … Read more
Blogging
New Site Features
I’ve been working on the site today with the following results: one nice feature has been added, and there are a few minor changes to the site navigation. Most notably in that regard, … Read more
About All the Pages
Ever since Ken referred to me as Mike NLI (no last initial), I’ve been aware that this site needed an About page. And so, now it has one: About All the Pages. It’s … Read more
San Diego and Seattle Trips
The blog format, with articles appearing in reverse date order so that the newest postings are displayed first, works rather well … for blogs themselves. On the other hand, if someone is trying … Read more
All the Pages: New Home!
This is the first entry I’m making to this site in its new location. I’ve been feverishly testing and reviewing the site, including checking links and setting up redirects from the old site, … Read more
CSS Media Types
In the “sharp knives may be dangerous in unskilled hands” category comes this lesson. I had, as part of the process of converting the site to validate against W3C standards, changed the method … Read more
Do You Know What I Mean?
Former colleague, and well known author and educator Dave Taylor has put together a site that should be useful to all authors. The site performs a number of standard readability tests, including the … Read more
Validation Pitfalls
After a couple of hours effort last night my archive templates now all validate as either XHTML 1.0 strict or XHTML 1.1. That’s not to say all the content validates, however. The main … Read more