This is my first post using w.bloggar which is a great freeware Blog editor developed by Marcelo Cabral

w.bloggar allows you to edit your posts offline and interfaces with a number of Blog content management systems.

You can spell check your posts off-line, save them for future posting, preview, etc.

Also a great tool to use if you manage a number of different Blog.

You won't regret if you try it.

I am taking a risk but I decided to move the new layout to production.

It's still a work in progress and I still have some pages following the old layout but I will soon take care of changing them as well.

Let me know if you like and I am open to any suggestions.

I added a small links section to the right side of the main page but I will probably eliminate that, as the plan is to have the links on a separate page accessible via de main menu.

I also added links to the galleries from the pictures at the top of the page. That’s fully functional now even though I still have to change the style of each of the individual gallery pages to match what I am doing with the site’s main page.

I find it interesting that Internet Explorer recognizes the content of the ALT tag and uses it as a cuetip but the same feature does not work that way in Firefox. I will have to find a away of making that work in Firefox.

It appears that I finally understand how the Movable Type CSS works.

I added a menu today that looks pretty close to what I want it to look like and added another layer with a few pictures that will shortly link to the site galleries.

Next steps:
-Replace the “CoolPortfolio by Marcelo Pinheiro” with some sort of picture banner.
-Link the pictures to each specific gallery and add some cue tips.
-Add a links section

I am really having a hard time to get this thing customized.

I don't give up very easily.

Just put the default index.html and stylsheet.css files back and lets try it again.

I have to study this CSS stuff a little better to clearly understand why the page does not behave like I wish it to behave.

I just noticed that Movable type has released version 3.2.

Time for an upgrade?

May be during the weekend.

Let me know if you have upgraded and if you think it brought any new fantastic features to your blog.

My key issue right now is to find time to explore all the features and to learn how to customize the stylesheets.

As I start to work on the MT powered page to turn this into my future main CoolPortfolio page I am debating what are the modifications that I want to put in place. I am playing with the menu positioning a little bit as I would like to see it at the top of the page instead at the bottom of the page as my current main page.

As this page evolves over the next few days expect the menu to change format and colors.

I am playing with MT default CSS templates to find something that I really like.

I have the overall idea in mind but it's going to require a little testing and adjusting.