Hi, I'm Topaz ^^ My MT blog is located at http://www.pinnacle-elite.com/topaz/blog

I have a few questions that I should probably try out myself to answer, but knowing my history of screwing up everything, I thought maybe it'd be best to ask first ^^;  Thank you anyone who can help me out.

I would like to state beforehand that I am very, very bad at things like Javascript, PHP, so I might need extended help >_>

I'm planning on revamping my current blog to something totally new.  I plan for there to be three categories:  ficlog, artlog, and journal.  Since the subjects of these categories are completely different, is it possible to use the category archive option but have all the entries not display on the index page themselves?  So instead, the main index page would have say, a welcome notice, and then under navigation would be the category archive links.. Ficlog, Artlog, and Journal.  Is that possible?

Also, if that is do-able, then underneath the category names, is there a simpler way to add a "Last Updated" rather than manually putting in the html for every update?

I didn't see this immediately, so maybe it's really obvious and my eyes are lazy, but...  If I did use category archives as "main indexes" for each page/category I'm planning to make, how do you show the amount of entries you want displayed in the archives?  Or is that coding already included in the archive pages?

I'm sorry I'm so long winded.  I really appreciate your time for those of you reading this. ^^;;;  Thank you!

Well, the easiest way to deal with this would be to create three separate blogs.

If you really want to have one blog, you can either have one category (journal, for example) appear on the index, with links to the other categories, by using this tag:



where you currently have:



in your index template. You can change the lastn="#" to any number of entries you wish to have appear, or remove it to have ALL journal entries appear. Or, change lastn="#" to days="#" to have entries from the last # days appear.

Then put this in somewhere to link to "ficlog" and "artlog":



Customize to suit your needs. Hope this helps!

/Alyssa

That helps a LOT!  Thank you very, very much, you made it all easy and I'm thankful so that I could understand it.  This is a great help ^^d

I would have just made three blogs, but I am using the one blog that my host made for me.. meaning, she is admin of the MT on pinnacle-elite and I just own that one blog she made.  I didn't want to trouble her with making three blogs if there was a possibility of having just one.

And that's a really good idea, so thank you for finding a way for me! ^___^;;