It all began a few weeks ago. I had decided that I wanted to make my website more uniform in its look-and-feel. I was pleased with how my Mainprize Gallery looked. It is powered by Gallery 2 and uses a Carbon theme which has a very clean layout and a dark background that is very good for viewing photos. Even though a dark background isn’t generally ideal for a weblog, I thought that it would be neat to see if I could make a Movable Type blog look like my Carbon gallery.
I started to edit my old Movable Type 3.15 template files and started to get annoyed at propagating the changes to all of my templates. “Perhaps the new Movable Type 4 would be better,” I thought. So merrily of I went and installed MT 4.1 over my old directories…
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