Everitz Consulting

At Everitz Consulting, our speciality is working with the Movable Type content management system (Commercial, Enterprise, Open Source and Personal), but don't let that fool you into thinking we can't help if you don't use Movable Type.

We can also help you with implementing Advanced Templates, Pages, Typelists or your own domain name on TypePad (Business Class or Standard). If you'd like to move from one to the other, we can help with that too.

Even if you don't use Movable Type or TypePad, that's okay. We have experience working with Expression Engine, Moodle, Openads, phpBB, Pligg, SMF, vBulletin, Web Event and Wordpress too. Not in the list? Ask - we might have tried, and if we haven't, we might be willing to give it a go.

Whatever your need, we'd love to have the opportunity to show you what we can do to help you find your online voice, and if this isn't your cup of tea, we also provide custom Perl and PHP programming solutions, will help you sort out your MySQL database issues and we can even offer standard network consulting.

Regardless of your choice, our ultimate goal is your complete satisfaction. We will not pick up and leave the instant that the current project is complete, nor will we leave you in a lurch wondering what is happening while your deadline approaches.

If you are interested in developing a relationship rather than just writing another contract, we look forward to working for you.

With the recent release of Movable Type, it has come to my attention that some of you may receive extra notifications sent if you have users subscribed to receive notifications when new entries are added to your blog. This appears to be due to something in the upgrade process, as near as I can tell, saving entries during the upgrade, which triggers a save through MT-Notifier, thinking that it might have something new to send.

If you want to avoid new notifications being sent out, and you are a registered user of MT-Notifier version four, drop me a line prior to upgrading. There is a version of MT-Notifier that I have which will allow you to create history records for all of your subscribers, effectively marking all of your existing subscribers as if they have already been notified of all entries on your system. A bit of a hack, really, but it should work to alleviate this problem.

After the success of the Allison Rodgers Photography Blog on TypePad, I really didn't know what to expect. As luck would have it, that success continued. To begin with, the ARP blog has been featured on the TypePad homepage (I linked to the ARP story there, just in case TypePad decided to rotate their images). After that, however, I had a number of requests from people on TypePad. It's really amazing that there are so many photography-focused blogs on TypePad. I never would have imagined!

In any case, though I've had quite a few requests, a number of them are still in the investigation or planning stages, but one of them has actually rolled out some changes: The Gigi Photography Blog. Gillian - Gigi herself - contacted me about making some changes similar to those made at ARP. Namely, she liked the drop-down menus that we had put into place, as well as updating the sidebars to make some more room for her photo content and we even included the comments right on the home page and the other entry listing pages (the monthly archives, since she doesn't have categories on her blog).

I have a thought on how to fix the category issue with MT-Notifier (where you have to save it in unpublished mode with categories, then publish it before saving in published mode). But I need a couple people who can check it out. You're welcome to try it if you have a lot of subscribers, but it's probably best if you don't have too many, just in case. Nothing should break, but I'm curious if we can get it to work without having to worry about if you have to save in unpublished mode first. Let me know if you're interested.

• Fixed a problem with an undeclared variable in Notifier.pm.

Licensed users can re-download from the links provided.

The download file for MT-SmugMug was hosed, and returning a server error. This has been updated, so you should be able to get it. Sorry about that (and thanks for the heads-up, Su!).

• Update logic (again) for correct alphanumeric photo ID.