The last week or so I have spent time on upgrading by brother's site to run on Movable Type 4.2. The previous site was still running 3.6 with heavily customised web templates that made me put off upgrading until the last minute, literally.
The first thing I did was upgrade the back-end, that was easy. The difficult part was that my customised templates did not have any comment code in and I wanted to add commenting ready for the start of the Paralympics games, I was left with no choice but to style the existing templates to match the old style as closely as possible. In the end the new templates went live during the Paralympic opening ceremony. So I give you version 1 of the new style for Darren Kenny, Paralympic Cyclist. There are a few tweaks to do with the styles before I will be happy.
Upgrading the site has given me a lot of material to write up, so before the end of September I will being a series of articles on customising the MTOS classic blog templates, so stay tuned.
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