October 2003
10.30.2003
Halloween Photo Album Style
Want to create a Halloween-themed photo album to house all the photos you take on Halloween this year? We've specially created a new style for TypePad users to choose when customizing their photo albums. To apply the new Halloween style to your photo album, simply click on the style link in "Design" and choose "Halloween" from the style pull-down menu. Press save and your album will look something like this (with your own photos, of course).
Posted by Mena Trott at 10:03 PM | Permalink
10.25.2003
More Privacy Features
This past week, we released a new version of TypePad with a couple of small new features, and a couple of improvements and fixes.
One of the new features is completely transparent to those of you with private weblogs or photo albums: your private pages are now marked as private, and Google and other search engines won't index them. We're doing this using the Robots Exclusion Protocol, which is a guide to (polite) search engine robots to tell them where they should and shouldn't go.
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Posted by Benjamin Trott at 11:23 AM | Permalink
10.15.2003
Domain Mapping
Domain mapping is the process of pointing a registered domain name, such as www.example.com, to your TypePad weblog or photo album and it's available now. Make sure your weblog's web address is as personal as your words.
This is more than domain forwarding, because your permalinks and URL will contain the address of your domain instead of your TypePad subdomain.
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Posted by Brenna Koch at 05:41 PM | Permalink
10.14.2003
Scheduled Downtime
TypePad will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Friday, October 17, 2003, from 1:00am to 4:00am Eastern time. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Posted by Mena Trott at 11:08 AM | Permalink
10.06.2003
Bandwidth Allotment Raise
Based on the subscriber usage statistics from the preview release, we've increased the bandwidth allotments for the Plus and Pro levels.
Plus subscribers are now alloted 3 gigs/month (from the original 2) and Pro subscribers are now alloted 5 gigs/month (from the original 3).
Posted by Mena Trott at 11:04 AM | Permalink
10.05.2003
Using AdSense
Matt Haughey has written an essay about using AdSense with his TypePad weblog PVRblog. What started as a way to subsidize the costs of his TypePad account has turned into a pretty profitable pastime and Matt offers tips for those who want to create a weblog that will driver readers as well as high click-through rates.
Matt also points out some drawbacks of the AdSense program, namely the particularly arbitrary nature of the approval process -- Anil covered this on his own weblog recently.
Posted by Mena Trott at 02:47 PM | Permalink
