Linkblog
I created a new linkblog on this site. The linkblog is collections of links to interesting sites, articles, news, that I stumbled upon while browsing the WWW. The reason why I created the linkblog is because I don’t want to post a new entry only to link a single article on my main blog.
The five recent links on the linkblog is also displayed on the main blog, if you click on the see more links link, it will bring you to the main linkblog where you can see a description of the links.
I am now going to explain how I created the linkblog. The first thing I did is to create a new weblog on my existing installation of movable type. I changed the Local Site Path of the linkblog weblog to a directory called linkblog on my weblog’s DocumentRoot so the address of the linkblog would be http://wpram.com/linkblog/.
There are three movable type templates I use on the linkblog, that is the main index, the monthly archive and the text-only template. The Main Index template is the index.php of the linkblog. It provides description of the links, links to my main blog, links to the monthly archives, and links to the linkblog RSS newsfeed files. The monthly archive allows you to view the list of links by months.
The final template is the one used by my main blog to display the recent link lists on the front page. It is called the text-only template located at textonly.php. I am using PHP include() function to display it on my main blog. If your host doesn’t have php, you can use Apache Server Side Includes.
Whenever I want to update the linkblog, all I have to do is post a new entry on the linkblog instead of the mainblog. The format is Entry Body for the link and title and Extended entry for the description of the links.