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The Best Article About Marketing Your Blog Ever?

January 12, 2007August 11, 2016 Christian Watson 6 Comments

ProBlogger guest author Tony Hung has written an amazingly comprehensive post about marketing your blog in 2007. In it he touches on just about every aspect of what it takes to develop a successful (i.e. popular) blog.

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Asset Management is Coming to Movable Type!

November 24, 2006August 20, 2016 Christian Watson

At last — it appears the feature that was most lacking in Movable Type is finally being developed. Check out the screens over at Movalog. It will be nice for this thorn in my side to finally be removed!

Has Blog Commenting Been Reinvented?

October 21, 2006August 7, 2016 Christian Watson 6 Comments

I just came across a post by Jack Slocum in which he describes how he built a whole new comments system using the Yahoo! UI.

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Easy Way to Test Individual Entry Archive Templates in Movable Type

September 14, 2006September 14, 2006 Christian Watson

Movable Tweak has a “useful article”:http://www.movabletweak.com/templates/easy_templating_with_individua.php for those of us who find themselves rebuilding hundreds of individual entries whenever they make a change to the individual entry archive template.

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Do You Ever Subscribe to Comments?

September 12, 2006September 20, 2020 Christian Watson 8 Comments

Recently I removed the ability to subscribe to comments from this site. I’d been testing out MT Notifier for a while, but although it’s a great plugin it had started to cause me to receive a huge amount of spam.

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Quick Reference Guide to Movable Type Date Formats

August 21, 2006August 12, 2016 Christian Watson

I find myself referring to the Movable Type user manual a lot, especially the page on date formats. However — much like the rest of the user manual — this page is not very user-friendly. Read More

Comparison of Services to Create Online Polls

June 5, 2006September 20, 2020 Christian Watson 5 Comments

I’ve been thinking about online polls a lot lately. It started with a poll I posted for fun about what people wear for work (it’s still open if you want to add your vote).

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Comment Spam is Driving Me Crazy

May 30, 2006May 30, 2006 Christian Watson

Recently I’ve noticed a marked increase in the amount of comment spam I’ve been receiving. It got so bad at one point that I could have a hundred or (many) more spam comments to wade through in my inbox.

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Blog Comment Form Design Showcase

April 24, 2006August 14, 2016 Christian Watson 16 Comments

Previously I put together a showcase of interesting and creative blog comment design. It was a fun exercise and fascinating to see the different approaches taken to the standard comment format. Read More

Blog Comment Design Showcase

April 6, 2006August 14, 2016 Christian Watson 35 Comments

Recently I posted some tips to improve the comment section of your blog.

I thought it might be useful to pull together a showcase of great blog comment design, to provide some ideas and inspiration to anyone having difficulty coming up with a good look for their comment section. Read More

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