Sorting is cool
Posted on April 16, 2002 @ 16:18 in General
One of the reasons I installed MovableType the other day is that it will do sorting and allows you to attach categories to your posts. This makes for a rather versatile system of organizing stuff, not just 'plain old' blogposts. I've been fiddling with the settings a bit and if you promise not to mind the current crappy layout (IE5 gives trouble, so use something else when you proceed), you can have a peek.
If you look at test page 1, you see a couple of articles and books. They're not sorted, they simply appear in the order that I entered them, for they each are a single blog entry. Don't believe me? Just check out this page. If you just leave off the "date" and "posted by" remarks, who will know it's simply a blog entry...
Now for the fancy stuff. Check out test page 2, and you see suddenly the entries are organized alphabetically. MovableType does the sorting, neato! Now let's combine this with the categories that you can use in MT. Check out test page 3, and there you will see only the entries belonging in the "Online Articles" category, sorted alphabetically. That means it becomes real easy to put all the stuff that's spread out in HTML in the Cyberculture, Identity and Gender section into one simple to administer blog database and generate single webpages instead of mucking about with frames. Pukka! Jamie Oliver would say.
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