Using These Styles With StyleCatcher
All of these styles can be fantastic assets for your blog, but figuring out how to get them from this site to your own blog can sometimes feel overwhelming. Fortunately for Movable Type users, Stylecatcher makes the whole process painless, especially now that Movable Type now comes with Stylecatcher built right in.
The process looks a little something like this: 1. Make sure you're running the latest MT install, 2. Click 'Select a Design using StyleCatcher' from your blog's main menu, 3. Put 'http://www.thestylearchive.com/browse/' in the Theme URL field. Then all you have to do is find the theme you like, choose your blog in the drop down menu and click 'Apply Selected Design'. The theme files are downloaded and the CSS is automatically updated and rebuilt. Check out your blog, and don't forget to refresh.
If you're not so keen on having to wade through them all, we've also set it up so that you can specify an individual theme's url on the Stylecatcher page. For instance, typing 'http://www.thestylearchive.com/designs/web_2oz_emerald_city' in the Theme URL field would just show that particular theme.
Comments
Surfergirl
June 16, 2008 5:22 PM
I don't see the "select a design using StyleCatcher" on any menu in my blog. I'm running Moveable Type 4.1 I believe, it's not the latest version, but it was the one that was released last year I believe. Can I still use your templates, and if so...how?
Thanks
icedtrip
June 18, 2008 2:49 PM
@Surfergirl
I had this problem too running 4.1. You need to click on Design>Styles. Once there, there is a small "+" sign next to the word Categories. Click on that, paste in the URL, and voila.
Now, how we are suppose to know this is beyond me. I was just clicking every link I could find and stumbled on it.
Skye
June 19, 2008 9:45 AM
The Style Archive styles will NOT work with Movable Type 4.1 templates! Would someone from the Style Archive team please put something on this site to warn people about this?
icedtrip
June 21, 2008 5:11 PM
That explains all of my problems I have been having. Agh! Found the perfect style for me, and it doesn't work with 4.1.
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