March 2008 Archives

In Movable Type 4 the vocabulary of information elements increased to include Pages. By adding Pages through the Movable Type system, users can create files on their web sites or blogs that are not part of the chronological flow of Entries. This feature may be expressed as simply as an "about" page on a blog. Or it may be part of a more complex organization of pages into a site with a blog.

Pages are not entries

Pages can be organized into folders, but pages do not have categories. Entries have categories. Pages are not listed in date archives or on blog index pages. There is a nested page listing widget which can be placed in sidebars. Pages have their own template which is separate from entry templates; they can be customized to have different XHTML structure than entries, archives and indexes.

There are similarities between pages and entries

Pages can have a main (body) and extended sections, they can have excerpts that work the same way as excerpts work on entries. Pages have keywords field and they can be tagged. Pages can have comments and trackbacks.

One of the products that we are pleased to support for our customers is Movable Type Open Source, and all the Movable Type ™ 4.1 commercial products. We like this so well, we're going to use it for managing our new web site.

At KinetixHosting.com we are excited to try web site development using the Universal Template Set that comes with Movable Type 4.1. Our goal is to show that you can make use this tool, out of the box, to make a functional basic web site in three days without a huge investment in time. To that end we won't be making any significant changes to the structure for the initial launch, purely an exercise in developing the content and small changes to customize the look of the site.

We have been planning this change for some time, and we have even simplified our pricing for new customers. This effort marks our first major web site redesign in five years, and should our on-going commitment to providing excellent Business Web Hosting Services to all our customers.