I've started my new MT blog at www.robotic.com. I've been blogging for a long time (previously using Blogger) so I'm used to the idea of multiple-per-day small blog entries.

But, I'd also like to create occassional "essays" (long-ish articles) that would not appear in my blog, but rather be html documents with the same general appearance as the blog, but without date headers, etc. I'd point to these in my blog. An essay might be, for example, "Long Report on My Trip to India," or "A Comparision of the Top 10 Video Compression Routines."

Any example of this? Any source for ideas on code and linking to MT?

Thanks!

-- Clint Laskowski

For several things like this, I've created a new index template with the same formatting as my Main Index Template and swapped out the MTEntries container for my content.    Would that work for you?

Kristine

Another option would be to set up a second blog specifically for this purpose. Use individual-entry archiving, and you're in business.

I like using Brad Choate's extra MTCategory tags.

Simply use the tag and then specify an "essay" category.  If the category is "essay" then the page can format itself in completely different ways.

Something like this:



Since I'm a matress on the floor type of minimalist I like to keep my templates to as few as possible and this is a good way to do it.

That's pretty smart. I'll have to remember that.