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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Superficially Useless
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Solid MT Manual
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 ... Read More
- Superficially Useless
- Solid MT Manual
