09.09.2004
New TypePad Features
Posted by Michael Sippey in
Are you a digital shutterbug? Addicted to your cameraphone? Can’t wait to share your latest photos with friends and family? Today we’ve added new features to TypePad, including a set of "Mixed Media" weblog templates that are perfect for sharing your life online as it happens. The new templates help you put all your digital assets – text, photos, video and audio - front and center, and feature six new professionally designed styles. The new styles were contributed by Dave Shea of Bright Creative and mezzoblue.com, and he's the first of many designers who will be contributing to TypePad's library of weblog styles. The new mixed media templates are available to Basic, Plus and Pro users, and can be applied to an existing weblog, or to any new weblog you create.
Mixed media templates are great for moblogging, but you don’t have to have a cameraphone to use them - images uploaded via the web will display just as well. The new layouts include a photo calendar, a timeline, an “artistic� layout ideal for photo essays, and two new traditional weblog layouts.
The new templates are fruit of our recently announced partnership with Nokia. We’re working with Nokia to make it easy for people to share their lives online as they happen. You’ll see more from Nokia and TypePad in the coming months, as we combine capabilities from TypePad with Nokia's Lifeblog, an application that lets people keep a multimedia diary of the items collected with mobile phones.
Sample templates and styles
In addition to the new templates, we’ve also made some other enhancements to TypePad.
- We’ve streamlined and simplified the new account creation process, making it easier than ever for new TypePad users to get up and running with their own weblog.
- We’ve also made it easy for a weblog’s guest authors to create their own weblogs on TypePad without having to create a new account.
- When you upload and insert an image into your weblog, you can now choose to save your custom settings for thumbnail creation, text wrapping and popup window behavior as the default for your weblog. The next time you upload an image, TypePad will use your custom settings for inserting the image.
- For users with multiple weblogs, we’ve made it easier for you to select and identify your default weblog.
- We’ve fixed a display bug with the QuickPost screen on Internet Explorer. Before, when you typed in the "post body" field, text would flow beyond the edge of the window; it now behaves like it should.
- You'll notice some new text formatting icons in the post creation and editing screen; we think they’re easier to understand than our old icons.
- If you choose to display a category archive listing on your weblog, TypePad now automatically turns on category archiving for you.
Finally, if you haven't already noticed, we recently made it easier for you to post via email. You now have the option of posting from up to five email addresses. This means that the extremely mobile amongst you can now post to your weblog from your home email address, your work email address, your webmail account, your cameraphone, and your PDA. Visit Control Panel > Profile > Mobile Settings to configure the addresses you'll be using.
We're very excited about the new features, and have lots of great stuff in development! Stay tuned for more...
