Design update and travel blog reorganization January 5
Tonight I found the inspiration to come up with something of a design for this new blog, as well as reorganize my travel blog into more of a permanent archive format.
In reorganizing the travel blog, I ended up having to use a nasty php hack in order to be able to have everything listed in forward chronological order. It would appear that there isn’t yet a may in moveable type to set order on a MTArchiveList section (though you can on a MTEntries section). I ended up finding this entry over at the girlie matters (go figure), which ended up being both comprehensive and helpful. I ended up using the php solution, with a bit of modification to get the layout I wanted.
During the whole redesign/reorganization process, I found my latest firebird plugin, mozex, to be a huge help. It’s a relatively simple plugin that allows you to configure external apps to handle things such as viewing the page source, editing the content of textareas, and handling mailto links. I originally installed it to handle mailto links, since I didn’t see another easy way to get firebird to send mailto links to evolution (though it seems like there should be an easier way), but have been relishing it’s view page source and edit textarea features a lot more, as it allows me to use vim, my editor of choice (obsession?) that much more.