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03.06.2006

Sharing Some Knowledge

One of the great things about blogging is integrating other cool services into your blog, whether in the main body or sidebar modules. In fact, we happen to know this is an area of great interest to bloggers. That's because we're constantly listening to and posting answers to your questions in our TypePad Knowledge Base, a living, breathing resource that reflects and reacts to what you want to know. That said, here are some articles that you've told us you want to read:

Read up. Rate the usefulness of our explanations. Ask more questions. And stay tuned for more developments in regards to integrating TypePad and cool third-party sites and services. We are always looking to deliver what bloggers want.

04.24.2004

Uploading Images and Files to your Weblog

A new feature that was added in the recent update was the easier-to-use Upload Image and Upload File buttons on the Compose a New Post page.

These buttons replace the Upload File link and also give you the choice of wrapping text so it flows around an image.  You can use the default options for this, or set your own configuration.

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02.20.2004

Domain Mapping Made Easy

Setting up domain mapping with your TypePad site?  Unsure of how to make the necessary changes with the registrar?  pairNIC has now made this simple!

All you need to do is have your domain registered there, and the mapping is configured by following the walkthrough in their Domain Name Management.

You will enter the name of your TypePad site (example.typepad.com), and also set up where you would like your email sent:

  • Login to the Domain Name Management System.
  • Click on the Manage Domain Names link.
  • Click on the domain name you want to update.
  • Click on the Domain Parking link.
  • Confirm parking the domain.
  • Enter the URL of your TypePad page and your e-mail address on the parking page and click continue.

Confirm the change and your domain is mapped.  All set!

How do I direct a domain to my TypePad page?

11.12.2003

Customizing Your About Page

Your About Page is a special place to display information about yourself to let your visitors know more about your interests. The About Page for every site is located at http://example.typepad.com/about.html.
(or http://example.blogs.com/about.html if your site is at the blogs.com domain)

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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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09.20.2003

TypeList Tags

For TypePad Pro users who are using advanced templates sets and want more control over the display of their TypeLists, we've just documented an assortment of new TypePad tags.

As always, we recommend that users who are not comfortable editing HTML and using template tags, utilize the template builder and try to avoid converting their templates.

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09.11.2003

Selecting a Weblog for Default Display

We've just released a new (and much requested) feature that allows TypePad plus and pro subscribers to select which of their weblogs appear at their home level directory (the root). Prior to this release, your first created blog would appear at the root (so, for example http://example.typepad.com).

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09.04.2003

Renaming Template Sets

When you make changes and updates to your template sets (as well as create new sets based on existing ones), you'll want to give your template sets unique names that reflect the design or purpose. Renaming a template set is a way to help keep things more organized and easier to understand.

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09.04.2003

Customizing your Weblog Post Footer

You may have noticed that after most weblogs there is usually a single line of text and links that identifies data about the post. In TypePad, we call that the post footer. The post footer contains information including author name, post date, category, permalink (the permanent link to your post that readers can link to), and links to the post comments and TrackBacks.

Using a basic template set you can configure the post footer to show different information and formatting.

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08.29.2003

Earning Money Through Amazon Associates

If you've posted to a Reading and Music TypeList, you've probably already noticed that if a reader clicks on the item's cover or link, they'll be directed to an Amazon product page about that item. What you may not know is that you can earn money or Amazon credit for items purchased through your website.

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08.27.2003

Setting up the QuickPost bookmarklet

Have you ever wanted to write a weblog post about something you've just read on an online news site, weblog or web page but didn't want to go through the TypePad interface to compose and publish your post?

If so, then you'll definitely want to set up the TypePad QuickPost bookmarklet.

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08.14.2003

Schedule a Post

TypePad allows you to schedule posts to be published to your weblog at a date and time in the future. Additionally, you can alter the “Posted on” date of any post to appear as if you had published it in the past.

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