Summary

Customizing Movable Type can be a challenge for individuals who are not too familiar with code. In this chapter, you've learned to get into the code in greater detail than before by building your own templates from the bottom up. Still, those who are interested in easier, faster results may prefer to stick with the preconfigured templates we looked at in Hour 10 or the semimodified templates we worked on in Hour 11. The more adventuresome and experienced will need to dig even more deeply into the tag structure of Movable Type in order to get the exact custom results they are after.

Now that you've got your Movable Type look and feel down, it's time to provide some features specifically for your visitors. Before we move on to that in the ...

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