We're back

We're now on Movable Type 4.3 and I believe we're fully functional again. This is the first time in a long time I've republished the entire site in one pass. With five years worth of entries, it takes a while.

There are a few differences that readers might want to be aware of:

• The link to the individual entry page is now the entry title itself.


• We now have tags and once I publish this entry with a "housekeeping" tag, a tag cloud should appear in the sidebar. I much prefer tags to categories because you can make tags up as you go along and you can have more than one associated with an entry.


• The sidebar on each individual entry now includes the blogroll making it easier for you to click away to someone else's house if I thoroughly annoy you.


• This version of MT includes the ability to easily create individual pages that inherit the site's look and feel. By way of demonstration, I've eliminated the meager media section that used to be in the sidebar and created a Media Resources page that contains additional linky goodness. And more to come, no doubt. There's a section on the sidebar called Pages that will contain the links to creations like this.


• I've eliminated what had become a tediously long list of links to monthly archives but there's a link to an archive index in the sidebar of each page and at the bottom of the front page should you decide to go spelunking.

There will probably be some additional tweaking. For one thing, the top banner will change. I've fiddled with a few different things without getting unanimous approval from the test market, which consists of past and present contributors. The only thing I've found out for sure is that skdadl likes to see things in flames.

If you see anything that looks odd or out of place, please let me know in comments. Of course if you think everything is just wonderful, you can let me know that too.