Anil Dash has launched Magazine,
Anil Dash has launched Magazine, a place to park some of his ideas about technology & blogging.
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Anil Dash has launched Magazine, a place to park some of his ideas about technology & blogging.
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How is Anil using Movable Type to publish magazine?
Posted by: sudama | October 22, 2002 10:45 AM
How? By busting my ass playing with templates for a few weeks. :) It's actually not that hard. Each "story" is a blog entry, in MT parlance, and it has an individual archive set up to use the name of the story as the file name. Not *too* hard. There are tons of features in MT, of course, so the hard part is making them not seem overwhelming to readers.
Let me know if that doesn't answer your question.
Posted by: Anil | October 22, 2002 1:21 PM
I'm only beginning to mess with MT, but this will get me started. I was specifically wondering about your filenames and such, thanks.
magazine looks great by the way. I am reading it with pleasure and will be watching it with interest.
Posted by: sudama | October 22, 2002 1:26 PM
dirify
When set to 1, ``dirifies'' the tag value. This means that the value of the tag is made suitable for usage in a file or directory name: the value is converted to lower case, HTML tags and entities are stripped, strange characters are stripped (where strange is defined as not included in the following set: alphanumeric characters, underscore (_), and whitespace), and whitespace is then converted to underscores (_).
For example, if the value of the tag without this attribute were Foo "Baz" is Bar!, the dirified version would be foo_baz_is_bar.
Example usage:
(aha!)
Posted by: sudama | October 23, 2002 10:01 PM