maggieroofus

I've added an email notification form to my site for updates but when I tested it I got this message ... An error occurred: Email notifications have not been configured! The weblog owner needs to set the EmailVerificationSecret configuration variable in mt.cfg. Can anyone point me in the right direction to set this so people can use the form? I've been all over the MT configuration section and haven't seen it. Unless I'm looking in the wrong place.

First of all I want to thank everyone for all of their response and help so far. It's all been wonderful and helpful. I have my photo blog looking quite nice - if I do say so myself. Although I've stumbled onto a problem. Even though I have everything centered in my style sheet, everything is bumped to the left in FF. Anyone have any idea what the problem might be? I've exhausted everything I can think of so far. If anyone wants to take a look at the CSS file to see if I'm missing something you can get it <b><a href=" http://www.moonjuice.us/styles-site.css " target="_blank">HERE</a></b> Never mind. I figured it out. Thanks anyway

Thanks. Glad to be here. Especially if anyone here can keep me from pulling all of my hair out over MT <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Welcome to TCH . . . as for MT, well, once you've done a bit of work in it you'll find that it comes more easily. Just a little experience is all it takes. Meanwhile, hang onto the hair! I visited your site - looks like you're on your way to a very nice photo blog! Good job! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thank you! Yeah, it was weird, I was at my wits end the other night and nearly had a meltdown over th whole thing LOL! Then I found somehting on the "Learning MT" website about adding a banner, and afte rthat somethign just "clicked" - it was weird. I'm very happy with it at the moment, except that I've discovered everything is pushed to the left in Firefox even though I have everything centered in my style sheet. I can't figure out what the problem is.

Okay. This makes sense now

Okay. I didn't realize that's how that was done. I thought you were answering something else. Sorry about that

Thank you so much for taking the time to explain all of this. I'm definitely going to print this and keep it on hand. With marie b.'s help I've been able to get this thing to really statr looking the way I want. My one sticking point at the moment though it trying to get navigation between entries (I'm only having one entry display at a time) using previous and next, but having it toggle through the main page and not the permalink entries. Does that make sense? Here's a link to an example. http://www.penelopesloom.com/ Any ideas what I would put in place of the MTPermaLink attribute to get it to stay with the main index layout?

Sorry - I was just answering a question with step-by-step instructions (but no pictures). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's okay. I'll forgive the no pictures I think I'm going to print your instructions out so I can study them when I'm more coherent.

Hmmm, here, let me get the link to a friend's site. It's easier than trying to explain http://www.penelopesloom.com/ If you toggle through her previous and next navigation you'll see what I mean.

Thanks! I'm going to go see if I can do something constructive with all this information Oh, one more thing before I go tackle this. With the "previous and next" navigation, do yo know how to make it display the previous and next entries in the format of the main page instead of the permalink page? I hope that made sense.

Okay, yeah ... how to get rid of it was basically what I was wanting to know. Do I need to get rid of it in the main index or just the CSS - or both?

What about getting rid of the side bar?

Sounds easy enough. Which means I'll probably mess it up I think I'm going to try and get this thing centered before I do that though. Thank you again. I really appreciate your help.

Thank you SO much. You have no idea how helpful you've been One more question. What's the best way to design a links pages and incorporate it into the MT platform? Do you just create a new template for it?

WOO HOO! Re: the archives - got it! You rock Does it matter where the "previous/next" code goes in the template?

Okay, this is going to sound silly, bt does this go into the master archives template? If so, then does it matter where? Or does it take place of what's there already? I've gotten so many error messages with the MT code that I'm a bit paranoid Also, would you happen to know where I would add code to get "previous" and next" navigation for my photos?

Yes, that is very much what I'm looking for! I finally got it to where I can live with it until I figure everything else out. But I really, really want the one column thing going on. For some reason the side bar just gets on my nerves with photo blogs. I'm weird like that. I've let go of the idea of image mapping for now. I'll just be happy to get it centered the way I want and get my archives and links how I want them. I'd like to have my master archive page display by category and by month. I'm having a bit of trouble comprehending how to do that though. I'm off to grab the CSS and check it out. Thank you so much for your help

I'm currently trying (without much success) to customize my MT layout for a simple photoblog. Not being the most fluent in code as it is I'm finding trying to understand the MT code to be very daunting. The most frustrating problem is that I can't seem to find anyone who can or is willing to really explain to me detailed specifics. I've had people tell me and I've read that you can design your site using plain HTML in Dreamweaver, etc and place it in MT. But I can't find anywhere that gives the specifics on HOW to actually do it. A step-by-step tutorial (with images) would be my best friend right about now. I understand that it goes in the "main index" template, but I'm not sure how or where to place it. Here is a screen shot of what I've done in Dreamweaver ... http://moonjuice.smugmug.com/photos/23165202-O.jpg My goal is for the centered image with any text and comment links underneath. I also need to add "previous" and "next" navigation somewhere in there. I was going to use a mapped image, but can't get a straight answer on how to map it for MT. I know how to do basic hot spot mapping in Dreamweaver for a regular site, but not to work in MT. Archives - I want it to go with the rest of the design. And does that code go into the "master archive index". If so, then where? And I'm assuming if I want a separate page for links that it will need to be done and linked to outside of the MT platform since there isn't an option for anything line that. Or do you create an other index page for it? Then there's the style-sheet ... I understand some CSS, but not all. So basically I'm looking for some direction on where to find this information. I could really, really go for a "Teach Yourself Visually" book on all of this, but one doesn't seem to exist. Oh, and if anyone wants to see what it currently looks like here's the link ... http://www.moonjuice.us/

Thanks. Glad to be here. Especially if anyone here can keep me from pulling all of my hair out over MT

Thanks. At that point, I have a feeling I'm going to be spending a lot of time around here. You all will probably get sick of my questions because I already have a ton

Thank you. I realized shortly after that I wasn't rebuilding the entire site. Once I did that it took. Sorry for the delay in responding. I thought I had turned on email notifications, but apparently I hadn't.

Thank you I would have responded sooner but didn't realize I was getting responses. I thought when I registered I opted for email responses. Now I'm wondering if I'm not just dreaming. I will have to check if that's even available.

Thanks. I got it working shortly after posting this but it wouldn't let me edit my post to reflect that. I also didn't realize anyone had responded. I thought I was set up for email responses but I must not be. Right now it looks like serious doo doo. I'm seriously about to pull my hair out. I'm trying to learn as I go and it's really frustrating. Here's my address. I warn you, it's in a shambles at the moment www.moonjuice.us

First of all I just switched over to TCH this weekend after finding out that my hosting provider didn't support MT. So far I'm thrilled with TCH! Anyway, I'm switching to MT after some experience with their web based blogging service TypePad so I'm a bit familiar with how their templates work etc. but I'm still learning as I go along. My question is this ... I'm trying to get it to where I only have one entry on my Main Index page at a time. i.e. if I were to post an entry and then 30 minutes later post another (which wouldn't happen very often) then the more recent post will be visible and the other would be bumbed to the archives. I tried changing the lastn="10" command to "1" in the entries tag but it's not working. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?