Building Web Sites with
Byrne Reese, Six Apart
Thursday, November 6, 2008

Let’s chat about...
• Movable Type Publishing
• Templates
• Template Sets/Themes
• Template Tags
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Publishing in MT
• Static Publishing
• Dynamic Publishing
• Background Publishing
• Publishing HTML, PHP, JSP, etc.
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Module Caching
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Module Caching
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Templates
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Widgets
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Styles
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Themes
(a.k.a. Template Sets)
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Applying
a Theme
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Exporting a Theme
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Template Tags
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Basic Syntax
• Case Insensitive Markup Language
• All equivalent:
• <mt:Foo>
• <MTFoo>
• <$mt:Foo$>
• <mtfoo>
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Function Tags
• <mt:EntryTitle>
• <mt:AuthorName>
• <mt:AuthorUserpic>
• <mt:AssetThumbnailURL width=”100”>
• <mt:CommentText>
• Hundreds more...
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Container Tags
• <mt:Entries>
• <mt:Comments>
• <mt:Authors>
• Arguments:
• sort, sort_direction, lastn, <filter by>
• Many more...
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Tag Modifiers
• Can be used on any tag
• <mt:EntryTitle lower_case=”1”>
• regex_replace=”/foo/”,”bar”
• encode_html=”1” (js, xml, etc)
• upper_case=”1”, lower_case=”1”
• count_words=”1”
• trim
• Many more...
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Variables
• <mt:var name=”foo” value=”bar”>
• <mt:SetVarBlock name=”foo”>
<mt:Entries>
<mt:EntryTitle>
</mt:Entries>
</mt:SetVarBlock>
• <mt:EntryTitle setvar=”foo”>
• <mt:var name=”foo”>
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Conditionals
• <mt:if name=”foo” eq=”bar”>
• <mt:else name=”foo” eq=”baz”>
• <mt:else>
• <mt:if name=”foo” ne=”$bar”>
• Operations: eq, ne, gt, lt, le, ge
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Loops
•Meta Variables:
• __first__
• __last__
• __counter__
• __even__
• __odd__
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Meta Variables
(example)
<mt:Entries lastn=\"10\">
<mt:if name=\"__first__\"><ul></mt:if>
<li class=\"entry <mt:if name=\"__even__\">even<mt:else>odd</mt:if>\">
<mt:var name=\"__counter__\">. <mt:EntryTitle>
</li>
<mt:if name=\"__last__\"></ul></mt:if>
</mt:Entries>
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Examples to Draw From
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Professional Website
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Mid-Century
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Sandbox
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Revolution
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You are not alone.
• Byrne Reese, byrne@sixapart.com
• http://forums.movabletype.org/
• http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/
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