TypePad Hacks is a blog dedicated to helping you make the most of your TypePad blog now, while attempting to improve the platform by connecting the TypePad Design Team to their User Base.
My sole connection with TypePad or Six Apart is that I use their tools every day as an important part of my business as an artist and designer. I don't work for Six Apart or receive compensation from them.
There are three areas of focus at TypePad Hacks:
User Design: Collecting useful hacks for extending the capabilities of TypePad blogs now.
User Forum: Providing a blog forum for issues, news and user concerns about SixApart products and service.
User Power: Organizing users into a unified voice to lobby SixApart for the features, fixes and changes to TypePad most important to us.
Where to start reading:
TypePad Hacks Manifesto: An introduction to the blog and overview of what I hope to accomplish.
TypePad Hacks Agenda: The master list of requested fixes, changes and features suggested by myself and readers of the blog. You can add your own requests in the comments of this post.
Collaborative Model: An open-source approach to a closed source platform, this plan calls for collective bargaining and grassroots fundraising to fund development in exchange for more input into the direction of future releases of TypePad.
How to Participate at TypePad Hacks
How would you improve TypePad?
Contact TypePad Hacks: Need to get in touch? My contact info is here.
Ask A Question: Is there a specific Hack you'd like to request? Is there an issue, idea, problem, or topic you would like more info on? Feedback you'd like to leave? This page is a good place to leave requests so that others can see if they've already been addressed.
If the question relates to a specific post, the best place to leave it is in the comments of that post. I'll get an email alerting me to it, and will respond as quickly as possible.Submit A Hack: If you've got a cool hack that you found, invented or refined I'd love to feature it on the blog. Read guidelines for submissions here.
Show Off Your Blog: If you find one of the Hacks useful for your blog, why not leave a comment with your URL so other people can see what you've done? In many cases, seeing how a variety of people have used a hack will be of great value for readers who are trying to decide whether they want to use it, or how they'd like to do so. Read guidelines for submissions here.
Suggest A Link: Is there a great resource for TypePad Blogs that you'd like to share? Post it in the comments here.
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More Resources for TypePad Bloggers
Blogs and websites that will help you make the most of your TypePad Blog
- Squidoo Widget Lens: How to Use Squidoo on your TypePad blog.
- TypePad Tips: A great resource for users at all levels of TypePad subscriptions.
- Learning Movable Type: Tutorials and Tips for Beginners
- MT Lookup: Searches a wide selection of sources for info on Moveable Type.
- Craig McGinty's TypePad Tips
- Now See Here: TypePad Tips
- Movalog: All Things Movable Type
3rd Party Solutions for TypePad Blogs
- coComment - Save + track your comments
- coComment keeps a copy of your comments in one central place. You can display all comments you wrote across the blogosphere on your own blog. Real-time RSS feeds keep you up-to-date on discussions you're interested in.
- FeedBurner - Point your feed here. We'll do the rest.
- FeedBurner's advanced feed management technology deftly delivers subscription services for publishers large and small so they can grow their reach, measure their audience and monetize their content.
- ecto
- ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX and Windows.
- MarsEdit 1.1.2
- MarsEdit is a weblog editor for Mac OS X that makes weblog writing like writing email-with spell-checking, drafts, multiple windows, and even AppleScript support.
- Performancing for Firefox
- Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be browsing, take notes, as well as post to your blog.
- Browsershots
- Enter the URL of your web page to make screenshots of it in different browsers.
- TagCloud
- TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the tag's link will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword. TagCloud lets you create and manage clouds with content you are interested in, and lets you publish them on your own website.
- VideoEgg
- The VideoEgg publisher is a small website plug-in that makes it simple for end-users to capture, edit, encode, and post digital video online. Currently, the VideoEgg Publisher is only available for computers running Windows 2000 or Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.4.
- Feed Submitter
- Enter your URL and Email and Feedsubmitter will submit your RSS feed to multiple sites.
- Firefox - Rediscover the Web
- Firefox Is hands-down the best browser to use when blogging in TypePad.
Blog Design + Business Links
Blogs to help you succeed on any blog platform
- A List Apart
- A List Apart explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards.
- Performancing.com | Helping Bloggers Succeed
- Performancing.com is a group weblog written by professional bloggers, for professional bloggers. The emphasis at Performancing is commercial blogging.
- Make Money Online with ProBlogger Blog Tips
- Helping Bloggers earn Money
- Copywriting tips for blog, email, and RSS marketing from Copyblogger
- How to sell with blogs, email and RSS.
News, Blogs and Info from Six Apart + TypePad
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