1. Not yet. Soon, oh so soon. So soon you can taste it, but not now. Oh, no. Definitely not now.

2. Monkeys. We're infested.

3. 3-column templates are the spawn of the devil. You aren't doing anything wrong, they're just evil and deceptive by nature.

4. Hmmm...this one I don't know. I could hazard a guess that the other site is accepting the trackback but not acknowledging it so your blog keeps trying to send it since it thinks it didn't work the first time.

5. Yup. Someday.

6. I can't answer this question as you've exceeded your quota.

1. This weekend. Nothing else planned... Except for rebuilding all my computers. Anyway, yes. (Actually, we can do it, but it's very prone to problems, and we're putting a new and improved system in place.)

2. I've never seen that. What browser are you using? If it's not Firefox, it's time to switch. If it is Firefox, I blame the monkeys.

3. Use tables. CSS is the spawn of the devil.

4. Most likely the server for the other site is timing out. I can tweak the timeout settings on our side, but that affects everyone and can slow down posting.

5. Possibly not. One big problem with MT 3 is that you're not supposed to run a "hosting service" with it, where "hosting service" is not clearly defined. Munu is non-profit (indeed, non-revenue), but if Six Apart decide it's a hosting service, then we can't use MT 3.

We will definitely be upgrading to something.

6. No. Your quota is seven questions per week in months with 31 days, seven and a half in months with thirty days, and twenty during the entire month of February. Answers not redeemable for cash. Also, by the charter Munuvians cannot be feed salmon more than four times a week.

Guess I better put down this sockeye then.

Re # 4 - I think Jim & Pixy missed your specifics. You're not doing anything wrong. Movable Type is just a little, shall we say, brain-dead under those circumstances.

If you have trackback autodiscovery turned on on your configuration page (the default), MT will send a trackback to every site to which you linked in your post. It doesn't know to knock this behaviour off after the first save of the post, so every edit/resave encourages it to send another trackback.

To get around it, you can turn off autodiscovery, and enter trackbacks manually in the trackback box at the bottom of your post window, but that's a lot more work.

I'll look around & see if there's a way to remove the trackback from a post after if its been sent once, in the event of resaves, but so far I don't see anything.

Paul

Actually, MT does know not to send a ping twice, but it only considers a ping as sent once it gets the correct response from the other blog. If the other blog is slow or broken, MT will keep trying every time you edit.

Here at Munu we have a patch installed to prevent duplicate comments and trackbacks, but it only works for incoming trackbacks.

Heh, Jim and Pixy may think CSS driven columns are the spawn of the devil, but ........... mine works! In both IE and Firefox/Mozilla (although it does, admittedly, look a bit better in Firefox).

Try this post for a CSS and templates that you can modify at will to work for your site. Try this category for all sorts of blog how to's.

Hint: Click the previous pings sent button before you save again. That reminds it that it pingged already (does not work for unacknowledeged trackbacks or in the state of Idaho. Void where prohibited).

I have a three-column template at my blog, but you probably don't want to copy mine. Half the style tags are on the main index template page, and half are on the style sheet page -- I'm a CSS newbie; my old design was all tables.

Try http://glish.com/css for template help -- that's where I got mine.