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I've been fighting with this Movable Type installation for over a week attempting to apply custom templates to two new blogs I am working on. I'm using MT4 on this site and their documentation for this version is less than exemplary. It is also too new for any published books, Six Apart says they are still a few months away.
I finally had a breakthrough this evening and of course the solution was a /facepalm moment. It had to do with the way I was referring to the URL of the sites due to having the other two domains as addons to this one. I have mbenton.com registered with HostMonster as my main account along with user40-0.com as an addon. This means my home for mbenton.com is .../public_html/ and home for user40-0.com is .../public_html/user40-0/. MT4 asks for a URL and a home directory when creating a blog. For user40-0.com I was responding with the correct home directory but was using a URL of http://www.user40-0.com. That would create the blog but not apply any templates. The correct repsonse to the URL question was http://www.marcbenton.com/user40-0/. Now it works as advertised. Too bad this isn't documented anywhere that I could find.
Hopefully this might help someone out.
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I finally had a breakthrough this evening and of course the solution was a /facepalm moment. It had to do with the way I was referring to the URL of the sites due to having the other two domains as addons to this one. I have mbenton.com registered with HostMonster as my main account along with user40-0.com as an addon. This means my home for mbenton.com is .../public_html/ and home for user40-0.com is .../public_html/user40-0/. MT4 asks for a URL and a home directory when creating a blog. For user40-0.com I was responding with the correct home directory but was using a URL of http://www.user40-0.com. That would create the blog but not apply any templates. The correct repsonse to the URL question was http://www.marcbenton.com/user40-0/. Now it works as advertised. Too bad this isn't documented anywhere that I could find.
Hopefully this might help someone out.
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Geoff Livingston recently proposed an interesting question on Twitter recently:
How do you know when you are a social media success?
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Tomorrow I'll take the next step and organize my resources. More to come.
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This is the question I want to try and answer using this blog, various social applications along with local networking events. Hopefully this doesn't sound too self-absorbing, most people just open a blog and get to it. I want to document the process, the successes, the pit-falls, and the total experience so that others may follow.
Geoff Livingston recently proposed an interesting question on Twitter recently:
How do you know when you are a social media success?
It looks like the majority of his responses were you are never a success for long. Don't rest on your laurels! My thought went another way, you become successful as you make others succeed. Thats my goal. Whether its a client or someone reading this blog my hope is that I can help provide for their success and we can keep the ball rolling. Think Pay It Forward.
For a personal blogger the first step is finding what to write about. A focus if you will. After much thought and some helpful guidance at the New New Internet conference, this is my focus:
How does a veteran of the software development industry with heavy experience in waterfall and spiral development efforts, along with rigid CMMi practices, migrate to and successfully practice the new Web 2.0 experience?
Tomorrow I'll take the next step and organize my resources. More to come.
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