Movable Type question

Hi,

I have lots of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and it's
time to put up a really good personal site. The thing is, I don't
have any idea how I would go about archiving content, creating
templates, etc... So, I'm thinking of giving Movable Type a try.

OK, my question: how customizable is Movable Type? I read a lot on
their web site, but they they never flat out said, "You can write your
own CSS and HTML Templates and we'll do the back-end hard work." I
want to get my hands dirty with HTML and CSS, but not *too* dirty with
back-end SQL and whatnot. How much freedom do you have over the
site's design?

Thanks for any info

"Trent" <spacerook.DeleteThis@marx7.org> skrev i melding
news:221fd1f2.0401151206.6528310d@posting.google.com...
 > Hi,
 >
 > I have lots of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and it's
 > time to put up a really good personal site. The thing is, I don't
 > have any idea how I would go about archiving content, creating
 > templates, etc... So, I'm thinking of giving Movable Type a try.
 >
 > OK, my question: how customizable is Movable Type? I read a lot on
 > their web site, but they they never flat out said, "You can write your
 > own CSS and HTML Templates and we'll do the back-end hard work." I
 > want to get my hands dirty with HTML and CSS, but not *too* dirty with
 > back-end SQL and whatnot. How much freedom do you have over the
 > site's design?
 >
 > Thanks for any info

Quite a lot, actually. You can tell by the look of the website for an
Internet radio station where I'm one of the administrators:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.errorfm.com/" target="_blank">http://www.errorfm.com/</a>

All news (both station news and music news) are published using Movable Type
(version 2.64) as the back-end solution. This one doesn't make use of MySQL,
but rather the use of files (due to the server we have available). As you
will see if you go download and install Movable Type yourself, our site
doesn't look anything like what the default installation comes with.

The templates can be found under the "manage - templates" button for each
weblog. If you check out each one, you'll notice several of the special tags
used to insert the various elements of data published. And with that, you
can even choose to exclude some of the data fields from your weblog.

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