Cool tricks with MovableType

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I wanted to toss this up really quickly before I crashed out tonight — over the course of the evening, I’ve tossed in a few very cool tweaks to my blog setup.

First off, the month-by-month archive listings (listed beneath the calendar on the right under the heading ‘Monthly Archives’) now display as a full calendar, with links to the individual posts displayed on the day they were posted. Just a nicer visual presentation than one long page for each month, as I had before. (Suggestion from andersja, code from Dive into Mark.)

The second tweak I’m all sorts of impressed by. There was a great little script posted on ScriptyGoddess that allowed me to implement live comment previewing. Basically, this creates a preview area where you can see what your comment will look like as you type it. It renders HTML as it’s typed too, so if you like to use any code in your comments, that will show in the preview too! Really, really nifty — and easier to see for yourself than for me to try to describe. I’m sure you’ll figure it out easily enough once you see it in action.

That’s about it for tonight…bedime for Bonzo now, tomorrow’s my really late night at work. Woohoo!