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Shhhh!, You hear that noise?

That banging, it goes on all hours of the night, it sounds, just - like - someone - banging their head on a desk. ......

Oh! thats me! That explains the big goose-egg sized hematoma on my forehead every morning.

Here's whats going on. Im busily building the Moveable Type Hosted site behind the scenes. Moveable Type is not for the squeamish and I might have to betray my chromosonal makeup and actually "Read The Flipping Manual".

What's the difference between MT and Typepad? at 15 minutes, I was up and running on Typepad. At 18 hours, I'm still trying to get columns to appear in the right order and get rid of the ridiculous colors that they load into the MT CSS Template.

If youre not technical, Avoid MT. If you are technical, its not too bad to get installed. I am graphically challeged and work in my alternate life almost exclusively by command line interface, so by the time something Im making gets to the GUI stage, I'm usually long gone. I think I will be ready to cut over to the "new cruelty" by this weekend, but I may have to pull in mercenary support. If I have to spend another day working to get the colors of my links to appear in something other than mauve, I may have to hurt someone.

Posted @ August 17, 2004 11:40 PM

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Hi Frank--

You probably already know this, so I apologize in advance if I'm wasting your time. But in order to change the link color, modify the color attributes for the links in the stylesheet, i.e.
a:link{color: #xxxxxx};
a:visited{color: #xxxxxx};
a:focus{color: #xxxxxx};
a:hover{color: #xxxxxx};
a:active{color: #xxxxxx};

Posted by: Rick Skarbez at August 20, 2004 10:38 AM

Thanks. I can use all the help I can get. Im working on style sheets now. I like what "da goddess" has done with providing skins for her site, and I'm hoping to do the same.

That an endless hours trying to find a decent wallpaper schema that is nice and not too distracting.

Posted by: Frank Martin at August 20, 2004 10:57 AM