Finally, A New Theme for Movable Type 5

For the past few days I've been looking for Movable Type 5 templates. I couldn't find them. Most of the templates I found were for Movable Type 4, and I was hesitant to try it on my blog.

I haven't created a theme for any blog engine yet, and I've heard good things about MT's template tags that they are customizable and flexible. From my experience though, they are quite complicated. It is true that the template tags are very flexible and Movable Type has lots of template tags that they even have a list of appendices for it.

I created this theme in a relatively short amount of time, so there might be some bugs here and there. These are some of the things that I have in this theme:

1. This theme is based on Pico theme from MT5's default install.
2. Navigation panel are moved to the top and "hidden" until you click on the navigation. It lists only Category (if the blog doesn't have any categories, it will list 10 most popular tags by entries), pages, monthly archives, and search box.
3. Default font is using Helvetica Neueu Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, and lastly is regular sans-serif. I know they are not standard fonts but I happen to like them very much. Since I do not have too many visitors on my blog, the font issues is something I'm willing to sacrifice.
4. I only enabled monthly archives, and category archives since I do not use other types of archives.
5. This time does not have different looks on multiple columns such as "wide-thin-thin", "thin-wide-thin" and more. I only made one.

I think that's pretty much what I have for this theme. If you have any comments please let me know. Also, if there people who like this theme, I don't mind publishing it for the rest of you :)

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