If you are using Firefox or Opera, look at my icon! Animated goodness - shiney!
In this quickie tutorial, I will show you how to add both types of Favourite Icon to your Movable Type blog engine templates, and also how to incorporate extra meta-tag information, which will aide in Search Engine placement slightly.
In some respects I wish they were - I've got far too many and have to spend a few hours dumping all the obsolete ones from my browser occasionally (hint to any programmers out there - Firefox needs a serious Bookmarks utility!). But something that is on the increase is social bookmarking, with the likes of del.ici.ous, blinklist, My Yahoo, etc. it's easy to save a page location from any computer you are at and refer from it later as well as sharing that bookmark with anyone else. There is also the trend of sending pages to fast paced news sites such as DIGG, but without all that fiddling about in hyperspa.. err, I mean in an Add Post window on their site.
Here's a quick piece of Movable Type code to add some quicklinks for your visitors on any currently read post.
Using the nifty CloudNine category tag cloud generator from Nick Gerakines at SockLabs, you can create one of those Web2.0 looking link systems [eg. technorati] for Movable Type.
Read on for my tutorial on how to implement C9 in your blog just as I have right here.
Whilst there are many variations of photoblog out and about in the wild of blog programs, Movable Type and the standalone photogallery programs - none of them really had me enthralled. Mainly due to my want of having a multi-thumbnail picture posting which didn't have to use another piece of software (beyond the initial image creation); wanting everything kept within the MT framework; wanting to only add pictures when I wanted them for a post - also I've noticed that the majority of PhotoBlogs tend to change the whole blog into that format - plus, some are just a bit too involved.
