Making Better Use of the “Welcome Message” Space
Published on December 4, 2004 at 7:00 PM EST
Last updated on October 9, 2006 at 12:02 AM EST
In the Tutorials category.
After creating a new weblog in Movable Type, you’ll see the welcome screen, pictured at the right. For the longest time I ignored this space, not recognizing how helpful it could be. I’m now using the space in several…
After creating a new weblog in Movable Type, you’ll see the welcome screen, pictured at the right. For the longest time I ignored this space, not recognizing how helpful it could be. I’m now using the space in several ways. To edit your welcome message you can just click the “change this message” link, make some changes, and save.
Examples of Usage
Several weblogs make up this site. The main danandsherree.com weblog welcome screen is pictured at the right, and obviously heavily modified with three sections: Frequently Updated Entries, our place in the TTLB Ecosystem, and Often-Used HTML.
At the right is the Welcome Message of the Photo Galleries section of this web site. It contains some brief instruction on how to add/create a photo gallery. Sometimes I forget how it works (absolute or relative path?), and this is an easy way for me to track it.
On my Mom’s blog’s Welcome Message, I set up some category icons for her and provided some quick instruction on using them.
None of this is at all complicated. If you’re at all familiar with HTML—and if you’re running Movable Type you almost certainly have a little knowledge—you’ll know how to make a Welcome Message that might provide you with a little easier way of working with your site!
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Dan’s got some creative ideas on making better use of the “Welcome Message” space that greets users when they log in to the Movable Type interface. It’s a great way to take advantage of this underutilized feature of Movable Type….
Movable Type > Making Better Use of the “Welcome Message” Space” href=”http://www.danandsherree.com/2004/1204/making_better_use_of.php”>Here are some tips and tricks for customizing the MT welcome screen. Good to have some examples of different messag…
Wanted to get some of these MovableType and blogging links on here that I’ve collected before I forget about them:Description of all the templates in MT 3.0.A directory setup entirely…
this is a nice tip that i’m using now. I save bits of code, instructions, and a few links I use a lot. After creating a new weblog in Movable…
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