The Playground

I added some code to the sidebar to use a new search feature that allows you to search the Movable Type Community, thanks to Elise at Learning Movable Type. It's a new way to search for Movable Type information throughout the MT community, MT Community Search (http://www.mtcommunitysearch.com).

Since this site is dedicated to Movable Type in particular, I decided it was a good inclusion, even if it's only myself that uses it, because I'm forever searching for something that relates only to MT.

Hence the new look. Try as I might, I have been unable to customise the CSS for the web2oz-emerald theme provided by Jesse Gardiner. As an aside, if you've visited the Style Contest Library recently, you'll notice some new inclusions. I have several custom fields, eg. comment challenge, subscribe to comments, and openid, that did not look good with the emerald city theme. (How thick am I? I've only just made the connection to the names of Jesse's themes - The Wizard of Oz. His other theme is Ruby Slippers, which I originally started out with.)

This particular design, which I love also, is called The Literary Life, by Caroline Smith. Since it's rather technical, I think the Literary Life is rather apt.

And again:Try as I might, I can't customise the CSS to display the input field the same as the rest of the blog. Although this looks better than the previous style, it doesn't look the same as the search box in the left sidebar. I've tried every configuration I can think of and nothing is working. I tried to leave a comment on the LMT site and there's something wrong with the CGI script (sounds like a problem typical of my own site, I was secretly smug thinking that I wasn't the only one with problems).