MT Setup Continues

By Oli
At 3:48 PM · Tuesday, 19 August · 2003
To HTML · Weblogging

I’m now going through the template HTML, and noticing some strange things. Here’s what I’m changing in the main index template:

  • Changed the title from an <h1> plus a <span> for the description into an <h1> containing a <span>. Now .description isn’t needed.
  • Moved <$MTEntryTrackbackData$> to after the entry, as it seems to only show RDF for the first story in a day.
  • Removed the <MTDateHeader> and <MTEntryDate> tags. I think this is irrelevant since I don’t post a lot, and it’s sorted by day anyhow. I’ll add the date to the entry post time. This also frees up <h2>.
  • Linked the entry title to the entry permalink. I can’t understand why the default linkage is via the posted time - that’s stupid. I also intend to add an icon to the left of the title that is also linked. I don’t know if I’ll use underline on the titles or not yet. I’ll experiment with a fainter underline colour.
  • Moved the entry meta info to underneath the title (author, post time + date, category), and enclosed it in a <h3> tag. I’m not sure about this. I think the blog description is a natural part of the blog name, so I’m happy putting that in the blog name <h1>. But I feel that entry metadata, while being worthy of a header tag, isn’t a part of the entry title.
  • I’ll have to strip out all the extra divs and classes sometime - contextual selectors should be enough.
  • Changed the posted at time format to something less American/more detailed.

Bear with me - I know it’s even uglier now than when I started (amazing! but true!). However once the code is clean making it better with CSS should be easy. Well, comparatively ;-)

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