I'm fairly new to movable type. I'm trying to use one of the professional website templates. I like this template as it will be close to the final design and it already has a nav bar built in. When applying this template it creates a home page and a seperate blog page. I'd really prefer for the blog page to be the home page. I'm unsure how to best accomplish this.
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
This is off the top of my head, so please excuse me if it's not 100% accurate, but you should get the idea!
Easiest option is to add a redirect from /index.html to /blog/ or you can:
* delete the home page template
* Edit Blog index template and change publish path from /blog/index.html to /index.html
* Edit the navigation template module and remove the "Blog" link (the home link will now take you to the blog home page)
That should be it!
Hello, as with Brian above, I'm fairly new to MT and I too am using the professional website templates and trying to figure out the exact steps to making my blog appear when my main url is entered (without using a redirect).
Richard, I appreciate your response above. Question: am I to delete the homepage.html or index.html (which is on my root). My first instinct was to delete index.html (to ultimately be replaced with my blogs index.html) but when I did this from within the MT dashboard, I got a major error and couldn't get to the next step of changing the blogs publishing path. I ended up refreshing my templates and am back at same starting point.
Any guidance would be so greatly appreciated as I take baby steps to learning this.