February 1, 2004

First Entry- Movable Type

Figured I'd check out the hype over Moveable Type. I previously had been entering some entries in an ASP based journal called Web Wiz Journal

Let's see how this works!

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The following was added on 2/29/04 after I helped yet another person with this same issue I encountered when I installed Moveable Type:

There's a glitch in the Moveable Type (MT) Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) that prevents some browsers from properly displaying some of the pages.

Seems that some pages, in particular the Individual Entry Archive page, requires you to move your mouse over the page to display the missing text. It's a bit like a scratch off game ;-)

I did some searching when I first got my blog up and running and I found the following solution which I know has helped others. Hopefully you find this page through some search engine and it solves your issue too.

Edit the Moveable Type Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) template for your blog. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the template and at the very end, add the following lines of code:

/* begin hide from IE5-Mac \*/
* html .comments-body { height: 1%; }
/* end hide */

Rebuild your blog and you should be good to go with the missing text now properly being displayed when you go to a page.

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The following was also added on 2/29/04. I started to receive spam comments in my blog. I can't imagine someone was typing them in manually, but you never know. The spam was for an "enlargement" site.

I did some searching and came upon a solution - MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse. Downloaded it, installed it, added the url of the site that was spamming my blog and tested it out by trying to add that URL. It was rejected. Seems to work as advertised.

Posted by David on February 1, 2004 2:40 PM