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One thing I badly miss since my migration to Movable Type is the lack of compatibility with Google Toolbar's functionalities that facilitate the posting of an article in a single click (e.g. the Send To feature).

I searched the web for Google Toolbar Custom buttons, Firefox extensions, etc. but could not find anything. It looks like Google Toolbar's API is only intended to create custom searches, and a quick look to the documentation to craft Firefox extensions gave me a headache.

Hence, I quickly hacked a bookmarklet to emulate Google Toolbar's Send To feature (inspiration taken here). It works fine with Opera and Firefox, except that window focus does not work nicely in Firefox.

To work with your Movable Type blog, you will need to edit the path to mt.cgi and the number of your blog_id (see bold sections in the HTML code below).

Update 2006/5/7: I figured I could have used MT's built-in Quickpost bookmarklet, but it is not compatible with the EnhancedEntryEditing plugin I use to edit my posts.

Sitemaps allow you to inform search engines about your web site's URLs that are available for crawling.

Google developed its own Sitemap Protocol, which can be very easily generated from Movable Type using Cameron Bulock's template. This template adds the main index page, all individual archives as well as monthly and category archive links to a sitemap.

For other search engines, I found out a SEO firm developed ROR, a search engine independent format, which can be used to generate sitemaps, but also product catalogues, etc. The format is described here. Several thousands web sites use it.

As I was not happy with the results of ROR's free sitemap generator, I thought I would adapt Cameron's Movable Type template to ROR format.