Comments for One, Two and Three Column Templates for Movable Type

One, Two and Three Column Templates for Movable Type

2006-12-09T23:39:02Z

I have long been advocating the adoption of an HTML and CSS standard for blogs. Movable Type has forever made its default templates that utilize just such a standard available on its website. But you will only find the "two-column-right" template variant there.

So, I have taken the liberty of creating more default templates for Movable Type that conform to all the layout variations of the standard:

One Column Layout
Two Column Left Layout
Two Column Right Layout
Three Column Layout

I am not sure if majordojo will remain the permanent home for these templates and files (ideally we should move these into the core of Movable Type or into a plugin), but for the sake of getting them out there for people to use, I just wanted to zip them up and put them somewhere.

So, here they are (or find them subversion).

Comment from Arvind Satyanarayan on 2006-12-09

2006-12-10T04:16:53Z

Thank you for taking this step Byrne. Hopefully this should accelerate the checking in for my column switcher for StyleCatcher!

Comment from Dan Wolfgang on 2006-12-11

2006-12-11T20:18:03Z

Yes, thank you so much for creating these. I've long thought about it, but never managed to get around to it. Many will appreciate this resource!

Comment from Light & Dark on 2006-12-11

2006-12-11T21:18:05Z

Beautiful timing Byrne. I was just starting to go looking for what I would need to produce these for a number of clients when I came by here from your Pronet 'Cutline' post!

The impetus was clients seeing 3-column options in Stylecatcher and not realising they needed to adjust templates, not just CSS, for the choice to work.

Much appreciated.

Paul

Comment from Xenujr on 2007-01-29

2007-01-29T22:45:19Z

How do I switch from 2 columns to 3 columns after I've installed and setup a blog?