{"id":1513,"date":"2003-07-25T05:36:01","date_gmt":"2003-07-25T19:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/25\/custom-mt-skins\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:59:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:59:47","slug":"custom-mt-skins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/25\/custom-mt-skins\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom MT skins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/djwudi.typepad.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/graphics\/MTPublish.html\" title=\"Custom MT interface\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Custom MT interface\" src=\"http:\/\/djwudi.typepad.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/graphics\/MTPublish-thumb.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"73\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So it appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialdynamx.net\/\" title=\"SocialDynamX\">SocialDynamX<\/a>, creators of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialdynamx.net\/faqs\" title=\"FMRadio FAQ\">FMRadio<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.userland.com\/\" title=\"Radio Userland\">Radio Userland<\/a> (<em>Disclaimer:<\/em> I know nothing about either of these products) is working on creating a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialdynamx.net\/pictures\/viewer$111\" title=\"Publish MT Skin\">custom interface for MovableType<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First impression? Ugh, that&#8217;s horrid.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m a little unclear from looking at their site as to whether that&#8217;s a replacment for the default MT interface that you see in your web browser (as is implied by the term &#8220;skin&#8221;), or whether it&#8217;s a seperate standalone program for posting to MT (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kung-foo.tv\/kunglog.php\" title=\"Kung-Log\">Kung-Log<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interalia.org\/\" title=\"Among Other Things\">UserSpace<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zempt.com\/\" title=\"Zempt\">Zempt<\/a>). If it&#8217;s a standalone program, then okay, it&#8217;s most likely Windows-based, and the horrid ugly interface makes sense. But if it&#8217;s a &#8220;skin&#8221; designed to replace the standard MT interface within the browser &#8212; why is it so verschluggene ugly?<\/p>\n<p>I was going to go into more detail, but I&#8217;ve gotta head off to work, and I&#8217;m out of time. Judge for yourself, I guess. ;)<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2003\/07\/25.html#a3926\" title=\"Social Dynamix is doing...\">Scoble<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First impression? Ugh, that&#8217;s horrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2040],"tags":[812,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}