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Notepad Chaos was designed by [2] Evan Eckard for [3] Smashing Magazine, who made it freely available for Wordpress users, and who kindly gave their permission to re-distribute it for Movable Type.

The conversion to Movable Type required quite a bit of template tweaking and so I've packaged it as a plugin for easy installation.

• [4] Download v1.1
• [5] View demo

Installation

1. Unpack the NotepadChaosTemplateSet archive.
2. Copy the contents of NotepadChaosTemplateSet/plugins into /path/to/mt/plugins/
3. Copy the contents of NotepadChaosTemplateSet/mt-static/plugins into /path/to/mt/mt-static/plugins/

To create a new blog using this template set, simply select "Notepad-Chaos Template Set" as the template set on the Create Blog page.

To use it on an existing blog, go the Design > Templates screen in Movable Type and click "Refresh Blog Templates" under Actions in the right column. Choose "Apply new template set" and select "Notepad-Chaos Template Set" from the options. Press the "Continue" button and then the "Confirm" button and then republish your site.

To Do

You will need to create an "About" page. Save the page in a folder called about, and name the page index.html. Tag the page @about.

The links in the sidebar need to be created. Edit the sidebar template module and add the website paths and titles for your link list.

Edit the footer template module to add some text that will be appropriate there.