New Manila Themes List
I have finally updated my list of my Manila themes. Instead of Simply listing the themes I have created, I have categorized theme. Some of my older themes are starting to show their age, and should be phased out. So you will now see a sub-list of the themes that I feel are to rickety to continue installing on Frontier servers.Movable Type templates tutorial
If you still haven’t dived into blogging, or if you want to switch to Movable Type from some other publishing system, or if you’re running Movable Type with default templates, be sure to check out Dorothea Salo’s ongoing series:
To coincide with her series, I’ve compiled a list of my Movable Type templates that generate the bulk of this weblog. I’ve done the same for the Raging Platypus templates, including templates for all those wacky metadata files people seem to enjoy so much. (9 syndication formats, no waiting.)
Share and enjoy. [dive into mark]
Hey, give the guy a break ...
and the credit that he deserves. So, a quick note in defense of the design half of the best Manila ISP team in the country (Bryan Bell and Erin Clerico).
Will Richardson notes some frustration at Harvard regarding Manila themes. "So does anyone have a clue which themes are worth preserving and which should be thrown on the scrap heap? Bryan has not really been much of a help here. ... Basically, if Bryan and Jake would sign on to making this work, we'd get a result in a few days, instead of languishing for what's turning out to be years."
Bryan has really been of much, much help here. And here. And here. And here. And... well, you get the picture(s) [sic]. None of the organizations presented in those designs has much money, but we paid for his services. If an educational organization that actually had money were to contract with him or with Kern County for a major theme clean up, it'd be a great benefit to tens of thousand of teachers and students who, as Will notes, are all too used to ''languishing for years."
(Note, too, that a good number of Bryan's old themes are not "scrap heap" material to the bloggers still happily using them. With some time and money, they could be tweaked to meet current demands.)
[homoLudens III]