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November 02, 2004

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Several days ago I build a new MovableType 2.661 site, "Jedi's S⁵", which functions making S⁵ slides show. I see a MT template example from Six Apart. However, my template-set seems to be much rich. Features:

Works well with MovableType 2.661 and above
Each category for one presentation
The very same slide-page can be shown on many presentations at the same time (I call this "Modularized Slides")

Modifying one slide effects all presentions related to it
Keep order from any two slides for presentions. (Although you may call this "bug" rather then "feature")

Assign different themes (styles) for different presentations
List all presentations in Main Index
Add Creative Commons License information/metadata

Here is my full notes about it.

First I build a MT site, changing site configuration as below:

Core Setup (Please modify to present your own situration. You will fail in case you just copy what I wrote here)

Local Site Path:
```
/home/jedi/S5
```
Site URL:
```
http://Jedi.org/S5/
```
Local Archive Path:
```
/home/jedi/S5/slides
```
Archive URL:
```
http://Jedi.org/S5/slides/
```
Timezone:
```
UTC+8 (China coast, Taiwan)
```

Archiving (Modify this before Preference)

Archive Type: Select "By Category" only; unselect others
Archive File Template:
```
s5-<$MTCategoryID$>.html
```

Preference

General Settings

Number of days displayed:
```
999
```
Language for date display:
```
English
```
Order of entries displayed:
```
Descending
```
Default Text Formatting:
```
None
```
Default Post Status:
```
Publish
```

Archiving

Preferred Archive Type:
```
By Category
```
File extension for archive files:
```
html
```

Publicity / Remote Interfaces / TrackBack

Allow Pings on by default?
```
No
```
Email new TrackBack pings?
```
No
```
Turn on TrackBack auto-discovery?
```
Yes
```

Comment Configuration

Allow anonymous comments?
```
No
```
Allow Comments default:
```
None
```

After that, I start modifying templates. First I deleted these unused templates:

Index Templates

RSD
RSS 0.91 Index
RSS 1.0 Index
Archives Index

Archive-Related Templates

Individual Archive
Time-based Archive

There are some templates unused cannot be deleted. I cleared them for security issue:

Miscellaneous Templates

Comment Listing Template
Comment Preview Template
Comment Error Template
TrackBack Listing Template
Uploaded Image Popup Template

Now I can work with templates. I modified my Category Archive template to become this: (You can also download it as zipped plain text file, [Archive_Template]_Category.UTF-8.txt.zip )

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title><$MTArchiveTitle$> | <$MTBlogName$></title>
<meta name="version" content="S5 1.0" />
<meta name="generator" content="Movable Type <$MTVersion$>" />
<meta name="presdate" content="<$MTCategoryDescription$>" />
<MTEntries lastn="1">
<meta name="author" content="<$MTEntryAuthor$>" />
<meta name="company" content="<$MTEntryAuthorURL$>" />
</MTEntries>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml;charset=<$MTPublishCharset$>" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="zh-tw" />
<MTEntries lastn="1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="ui/<MTIfNonEmpty tag="MTEntryKeywords"><$MTEntryKeywords$>/</MTIfNonEmpty>slides.css" type="text/css" media="projection" id="slideProj" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="ui/<MTIfNonEmpty tag="MTEntryKeywords"><$MTEntryKeywords$>/</MTIfNonEmpty>opera.css" type="text/css" media="projection" id="operaFix" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="ui/<MTIfNonEmpty tag="MTEntryKeywords"><$MTEntryKeywords$>/</MTIfNonEmpty>print.css" type="text/css" media="print" id="slidePrint" />
<script src="ui/<MTIfNonEmpty tag="MTEntryKeywords"><$MTEntryKeywords$>/</MTIfNonEmpty>slides.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link rel="author" title="Write to author" href="mailto:<$MTEntryAuthorEmail spam_protect="1"$>" />
</MTEntries>
<link rel="copyright" title="Licenses" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/tw/" />
<$MTInclude module="cc-rdf-slide"$>
</head>
<body>
<div class="layout">
<div id="currentSlide"></div>
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="footer">
<MTEntries lastn="1">
<MTEntryCategories>
<h1><$MTCategoryDescription$></h1>
<h2><$MTCategoryLabel$></h2>
</MTEntryCategories>
</MTEntries>
<div id="controls"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="presentation">
<div class="slide">
<h1><$MTArchiveTitle$></h1>
<MTEntries lastn="1">
<h3><$MTEntryAuthor$></h3>
<h4><$MTEntryAuthorURL$></h4>
</MTEntries>
</div>
<MTEntries lastn="999" sort_order="ascend">
<div class="slide">
<h1><$MTEntryTitle$></h1>
<$MTEntryBody$>
<div class="handout">
<$MTEntryMore$>
</div>
</div>
</MTEntries>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Please note that I wrote something about CC license in it. Please modify that in case you don't choose the same license with me. The template above calls a template module named "cc-rdf-slide" which including RDF data of CC license. Here you are: (You still can download this zipped plain text file, [Template_Module]_cc-rdf-slide.UTF-8.txt.zip)

<!--
<rdf:RDF xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/"
 xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
 xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<Work rdf:about="">
<MTEntries lastn="1">
 <dc:title><MTEntryCategories><$MTCategoryLabel encode_url="1"$></MTEntryCategories> | <$MTBlogName$></dc:title>
 <dc:date><$MTEntryDate format="%Y"$></dc:date>
 <dc:description><MTEntryCategories><$MTCategoryDescription encode_url="1"$></MTEntryCategories></dc:description>
 <dc:creator><Agent>
 <dc:title><$MTEntryAuthor$></dc:title>
 </Agent></dc:creator>
 <dc:rights><Agent>
 <dc:title><$MTEntryAuthor$></dc:title>
 </Agent></dc:rights>
 <dc:source rdf:resource="<MTEntryCategories><$MTCategoryArchiveLink$></MTEntryCategories>"/>
 <license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/tw/" />
</MTEntries>
</Work>
<License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/tw/">
 <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction" />
 <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution" />
 <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice" />
 <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution" />
 <prohibits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/CommercialUse" />
 <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks" />
 <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/ShareAlike" />
</License>
</rdf:RDF>
-->

Again, you should modify this template to use different license.

Now we still have to modify Main Index template. Otherwise we will get a error message during site rebuild! Here is what I have done: (Yes, you can download it as a zipped plain text file, [Index_Template]_Main_Index.UTF-8.txt.zip)

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="zh-tw">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<$MTPublishCharset$>" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="zh-tw" />
<MTEntries lastn="1">
<meta name="author" content="<$MTEntryAuthor$>" />
</MTEntries>
<title><$MTBlogName$></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<$MTBlogURL$>styles-site.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<$MTBlogURL$>favicon.ico" />
<MTEntries lastn="1">
<link rel="author" title="Mail to author" href="mailto:<$MTEntryAuthorEmail spam_protect="1"$>" />
<link rel="made" href="mailto:<$MTEntryAuthorEmail spam_protect="1"$>" />
<link rel="start" href="<$MTBlogURL$>" title="<$MTBlogName$>" />
<link rel="copyright" title="License" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/tw/" />
<$MTInclude module="cc-rdf"$>
</head>
<body>
<div id="banner">
[ <$MTBlogName$> ]<br />
<span class="description"><$MTBlogDescription$></span>
</div>
<div id="content">
<div class="blog">
<div class="blogbody">
<ol>
<MTArchiveList>
<li><a href="<$MTArchiveLink$>"><$MTArchiveTitle$></a></li>
</MTArchiveList>
</ol>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="links">
<div class="syndicate">
<!-- Creative Commons License -->
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/tw/">
<img alt="Creative Commons License" style="width:88px;height:31px;border:0" src="http://creativecommons.org.tw/somerights20.gif" /></a><br />
All content of this site without other notes are released under <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/tw/">Creative Commons License</a>.
<!-- /Creative Commons License -->
</div>
<div class="powered">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.movabletype.org">
<img alt="Movable Type" src="http://www.movabletype.org/images/mt-logo-small.gif" style="border:0" title="Powered by: Movable Type <$MTVersion$>" /></a></li><br />
<li><a href="<$MTCGIPath$>mt.cgi" title="Login to MT">Back-end</a></li>
</ul><br />
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Still, I make a CC license in this template. Feel free to modify it to present what you really want. This template also called a template module named "cc-rdf". Here you are: (Yes, again, you can download it as a zipped plain text file, [Template_Module]_cc-rdf.UTF-8.txt.zip)

<!--
<rdf:RDF xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/"
 xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
 xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<Work rdf:about="">
 <dc:title><$MTBlogName$></dc:title>
 <dc:date>2004</dc:date>
 <dc:description><$MTBlogDescription$></dc:description>
 <dc:creator><Agent>
 <dc:title><MTEntries lastn="1"><$MTEntryAuthor$></MTEntries></dc:title>
 </Agent></dc:creator>
 <dc:rights><Agent>
 <dc:title><MTEntries lastn="1"><$MTEntryAuthor$></MTEntries></dc:title>
 </Agent></dc:rights>
 <dc:source rdf:resource="<$MTBlogURL$>"/>
 <license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/tw/" />
</Work>
<License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/tw/">
 <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction" />
 <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution" />
 <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice" />
 <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution" />
 <prohibits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/CommercialUse" />
 <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks" />
 <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/ShareAlike" />
</License>
</rdf:RDF>
-->

Feel free to modify it.

In order to save time for further MT site to function this, I use the approach I mentioned before to make this file, default-templates.pl.zip. You should backup your original mt/lib/MT/default-templates.pl, unpack this zip file, and then put default-templates.pl into mt/lib/MT/ replacing the old one. After this step, all your new Blog will apply these templates as default. But you still have to config blog configuration manually.

We almost done! The last thing you should treat with is to upload files used by S⁵. Please get this ui.zip, unpack it, upload the whole ui folder into your Local Archive Path. You have done! Now let's see how it works.

Blog Author's name will appear as Orator
Blog Author's webpage URL (set at Your Profile) will appear as Orator's Company
Add a new Category before making slides for new presention

Category Label will appear as Presentation Title
Category Description will appear as Presentation Location And Date

Add each entry for one slide page

Entry Title will appear as Slide Title
Entry Body will appear as Slide Content
Extended Entry will appear as Handout while printing
Add entry in order. First entry for first slide, as so on
Entry which was published early will appear as slide preceding
You can assign multi category to one entry to make a slide page appears in many presentation
Modify Authored On time do change slides order (This only can be done after an entry is saved)
Power Edit Mode can help you changing slides order especially when you dealing with many presentation at the same time
You can mark any temporarily unused slide as Draft. Or unset its Category. There are some minimal difference between these two ways. But you can try

The Theme of a presentation is decided by the very last slide (entry) of particular presentation (category)

You can find it out easily via Filter in Edit screen
The One field to decide presentation theme is "Keywords"
Show this field from the "Customize the display of this page" link below entry edit screen
Keep it blank (do not even put a single space in it) to use default theme
Enter the name of theme to apply other themes
There are 4 themes apart from the default one:

blue
flower
i18n
pixel

That's it. Have fun!

Posted by Jedi at November 2, 2004 12:57 AM | 中文版 (Chinese Version) | TrackBack (0)

Comments

[ 1 : Permalink ]

What the hell are you hosting? The page: http://jedi.org.ua/imho/ is a criminal fraud!

If my paypal account has any problems because of this, I get you prosecuted!

Posted by Emma at January 21, 2005 03:33 AM

[ 2 : Permalink ]

I own Jedi.org only. jedi.org.ua or whatever else is not my business.

Posted by Jedi at March 31, 2005 05:00 PM

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