Successful Installation!

MovableType has been successfully installed!

MT installed

Okay, the deal is that Movable Type has been installed[1] on the new site (I fell in love with MT after reading the first half of the user manual last night!) and now I'm in the middle of transferring all my files over, importing my Blogger archives and trying to get the templates working.

I'm approaching it from the wrong end; completely ignoring the default stylesheet and rewriting the index.html template to work with my existing stylesheet. The opposite of the CSS Zen Garden :)

Hopefully everything should be up and running by the time I go to bed - if not, then sometime tomorrow.

Settling in

I've finally got the front page looking like the old site (have you remembered to update your bookmarks/hyperlinks/favourites?), and I've taken this opportunity to host the blog in the root directory rather than in a subdirectory. I never used my front page anyway :)

At the moment archives aren't really there (ignore them for now) since they still have the default blank template and the permalinks I'm still thinking about. But, for some value of "working", it's working... you can read this, can't you?

And some of my other sections aren't up right now due to the last-minute realisation that there are some files that I apparently forgot about when I went through them all a couple of months ago to replace all the absolute (internal) URLs with relative ones. But everything's still up on cyoung85.port5.com if you really desperately need to know 42 ways to get electric power from hamsters, for example.

It's relatively up and running

It's relatively up and running now - I'm aiming to post any further entries to www.bentbacktulips.co.uk, so you should definitely all update your blogrolls, bookmarks, hyperlinks, favourites, etc.

I'm outta here.