CMR Movable Type Styles Blog

iNove has been updated

2010-03-12T19:06:58Z

I spruced up iNove (the theme currently used on this blog) and have uploaded a new zip file. The updates are also in my GitHub repository.

iBlog2

2010-03-02T22:23:32Z

iBlog2 was created by PageLines and made available as a free template (premium version here). This version may be used in accordance with the GNU General Public License per the comment in print.css of the WordPress theme with the exception of PageLines which may incorporate any of my adaptions to Movable Type without restriction into iBlog2 Professional.

To see a live demo of it for the classic blog template set, go here. To see one for the professional website, go here. You can download it, click here. Installation is the same as usual except the following:

Professional Website TS users **read below**

There are two mandatory changes that need to be made to your templates to make it work. Open "Blog Index" and "Main Index" in the template editor. Next, find the line in each that says "blog_class=" and do the following:

set blog_class equal to "mt-main-index blog-index" in the Blog Index
set blog_class equal to "mt-main-index first-page" in the Main Index

Optional

Open the header template and find <h1 id="header-name">. Add <div class="sheen">div> right above that to add the "sheen" to the blog/site name. It will blur out the black at the top of it a little to make a smooth gradient look.

Poetry

2010-02-04T11:07:43Z

Poetry was created by cuikai. To see a live demo of it for the Classic Blog template set, click here. To download it, click here.

zFirst

2010-02-04T00:45:39Z

zFirst was created by zwooooo, and I would post a link to his/her site, but it appears to be defunct. To see a demo of it for the Classic Blog template set, click here. To download it, click here.

I Like Content

2010-02-04T00:07:35Z

I Like Content was created by John Saddington. To see a demo of it for the Classic Blog template set, click here. To download it, click here.

Dark Smoke

2010-01-25T22:39:48Z

Dark Smoke was created by Medical Website Design. To see a live demo of it with the Classic Blog template set, click here.

Download it.

Dark Relief

2010-01-25T10:39:44Z

Dark relief was created by Designer Relief. To see a live demo of it for the Classic Blog template set, click here.

Download it.

Four new styles to be added soon

2010-01-13T22:02:08Z

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Dark Marble

2009-10-20T01:59:20Z

This theme was created by Prime Strategy. To see a live demo of it with the Classic Blog template set, go here. Support for the professional website template set will probably come shortly.

Download it now.

Machine

2009-09-15T09:32:01Z

Machine was created by Shane Strong. To see a demo of it for the Classic Blog template set, click here. To see a demo of it for the Professional Website template set, click here. To download it, click here.

Carrington Blog

2009-09-14T23:56:43Z

This style was created by Alex King, who is a famous WordPress developer and theme designer. It supports both the Professional Website template set and the Classic Blog template set. To download it, click here.

Connections

2009-09-13T02:27:21Z

This is an oldy but a goody. It was originally created for WordPress by Patricia Muller. To see it working with the Classic Blog template set, go here. To see it working with the Professional Website template set, go here. To download it, click here
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Swirly Glow Things

2009-09-11T20:26:14Z

Swirly Glow Things was originally created by Matthew Reese. To see it working with the Classic Blog template set, go here. To see it working for the Professional Website template set, go here. To download it, click here.

Moving to GitHub

2009-08-25T15:16:59Z

In order to better protect the work I've done so far, not to mention make sharing it easier, I have moved active development to GitHub. The repository for the styles I have converted so far can be found here. This blog will still feature updates about what is in the works, but the best place to get a fresh copy of my work so far will be GitHub. People without Git can download a large tarball or zip from that link and then upload the contents to mt-static/themes.

Alaska

2009-05-08T23:36:12Z

This style was originally created for WordPress by SEM Labs. It's a two column style for the Professional Website template set, and it requires two minor changes to the Professional Website template to work. The first is that you must open the blog index, and change the top line to read:

<$mt:Var name="page_layout" value="layout-wm"$>

Then, change the Header template module by moving the main-navigation

to the position shown here:

Download the style. Go here to see a live demonstration of this style.

As always, please leave feedback and suggestions in the comments.