Sams Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours

Hour 11. Customizing Movable Type Templates

Movable Type templates are flexible; by using a combination of Web technologies and the Movable Type tag language, you can achieve a wide range of looks and behaviors for your site. You saw a bit of this in the last hour, which showed you the Movable Type templates and how simple modifications to them can change your site's design.

In this hour, you'll learn to

• Change the colors of your predefined template

• Modify the type styles of your template

• Add images to your design

You learn how to manipulate the actual style sheets involved with the predefined designs, so as to give them a little more life. The goal here is to get your hands dirty—playing with code and gaining more of a sense of independence and ...