kdlb-pad

TypePad has wysiwyg-goodness!

Wheee!!! 
Check out the updates to TypePad!

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added two new features to TypePad:

• Rich text editing, aka “WYSIWYG” (What You See is What You Get); and an
• Integrated spell checker.

One of our most important goals with TypePad is to make it easy and fun for you to add new content to your weblog.

While some folks might enjoy writing "raw" HTML, we’ve been using rich text editing around the office for the last few weeks, and have found that it’s easier to write, review and edit posts before publishing them to our weblogs.

Link: Everything TypePad!: Rich Text Editing and Spell Check Come to TypePad.

I'm lovin' it!

I love happy users

Movable Type Installation

The help files are excellent. They guided me through the painless installation, and are thorough in describing the actual system setup. Whenever I had a question, I found the answer quickly. I have also been prowling around the forums, which is full of helpful souls.

Its always nice to see such great feedback after someone has installed MT. There's other notes about their experience so far in the post too.

Six Log: TypePad Preview Release

It just makes me happy to see such an excited and smile-filled post - can't you feel Mena smiling reading her words???

Six Log: TypePad Preview Release

special side note that I couldn't help but mention... a big woo hoo for Brenna!

"I'm grateful to all who got us to this point (especially the latest additions to the team, Paul and Brenna) and look forward to the months ahead developing both TypePad and the various Movable Type offerings scheduled for release later this year."

FeedDemon beta3a

For all of your RSS needs, keep an eye on Feed Demon -- Nick released Beta 3a, and I'm using it for my primary newsreader because it already is so wonderful! :)

(Oh, and this post is also to mention that Nick has a TypePad blog, so go and visit him!)

TP release

Yay! TypePad is officially open for business! Welcome to the bloggy-world, to a wonderful terrific service. :)

I'm hoping to keep this site as a nice alternative place for posts. And possibly move my photoblog over here. :)

5 days of TypePad

TypePad News: Five Days of TypePad

Starting today [monday], we'll begin presenting some in-depth information about TypePad, including detailed descriptions of major features, additional screenshots and a number of ideas that inspired our development of the service. We'll conclude this week with a full feature list, pricing chart and information about TypePad's upcoming launch.

You must check this out. :) These are the features discussed so far, with my comments.

• Template Builder is so much fun to work with. It makes changing your design a snap, without learning CSS at all. Click on a color and pick a font, and poof! Adding designs is so easy that for the first while I was beta testing, I changed it virtually every day!! :) (see kdlb's screenshots for some of the versions I've used.)


• Moblogging: since I don't have a mobile device to blog from yet, I haven't tried any of these features out, but I think it will be a big hit.


• Photo Albums are amazing. Simply wonderful, with an interface for uploading more than one image and adding descriptions that makes me never want to do it manually again. I do believe that I would much rather use TP for my photoblog because of how easy it is than my Blogstyles tutorial. (see Mena's photo album of the new SixApart office. Man, if I could work anywhere, it would be there!!!!! I'd even put together chairs for them ;) )


• TypeLists make it so easy to add lists of blogs, books, music, or whatever you want to your site. Showing media that you are currently enjoying on your sidebar is a snap. Adding people to your blogroll is so easy when they use FOAF or a TypePad weblog, because you paste in their URL and it automatically fills in all of their details. You can even add a link to your blog to make it easy for people to link to you (see Brenna's Add to my TypePad People list.)

I can't wait to see what they feature tomorrow. I've got a few other things that I love about TypePad that I'd love to talk about, but I'll wait until after the last of the Five Days of TypePad.

Cross posted to my kadyellebee blog...

QuickPost

TypePad Development Weblog: Changelog 7/21/2003 (0.26)

Added QuickPost bookmarklets, which allow you to post quickly to any TypePad weblog or list.

Oh, I *love* this. What a wonderful way to integrate all of the options onto one screen; easy to add posts AND links and stuff. WOW-O-WOW!! :)

typist blogroll

A-M asked how I easily added TypePad users to my typelist - create a "people" TypeList and then you can use the URL of their TypePad blog to "quickly add a friend." This should automatigically discover their name, site name, and bio.

Just in case anybody wants a copy of my sidebar list, its of mostly active testers... Up to date as of right now. :) typists.opml.xml. Save it to your computer, and then you can use the TypeList feature to import it into an existing list. :)

beta and colors

New purple colors, just to satisfy my need to play with colors even though I don't have time to do a redesign on kadyellebee.

It's nice to see a few more familiar faces around the Typepad beta site - I'm gonna have to surf the devblog sidebar a bit more and see who else I know :)

so busy!

So I've been beta/alpha/testing so many things lately. Between TypePad, Zempt, the Plugin Manager, FeedDemon, as well as keeping up with all the other stuff I'm supposed to be, it keeps me busy. Crazyness!!!! :)

Just in case I hadn't mentioned it, every time I visit TP, it makes me happy. I love how it looks and how it works.

recent update list!

Ahh, how cool!

Anil mentioned the Updates list for all the public beta blogs. What a great way to see who else is testing! :)

Passing the link on is a good thing. :)

alpha-paula

I don't think I know Paula yet. So Hi to Paula!

(I'm also curious if autodiscovery will ping her when I type in her URL!)