Only to find that when you view the post, the image is much smaller than you intended??
And no matter what you do to resize the image, it stays too small?
Here's why:
TypePad's … (4 comments)
typepad: TypePad Layouts: Fluid Width Column - 07/24/08 07:09 AM
Here's how to set a "fluid" width column in the TypePad blogging platform as mentioned here
Sign in to your TypePad Pro account.
Click the Weblogs tab.
From the list of your blogs (you can have multiple blogs with a TypePad Pro account), select the blog you want to … (5 comments)
typepad: TypePad Layouts - 07/20/08 08:22 AM
TypePad Pro offers five Classic Layouts with their pro level blogging platform
Why do you care? Because if you plan to customize the appearance of your blog using the "Custom CSS" feature, you need to know the proper name of each layout in order to apply styling to it.....
So, … (12 comments)
typepad: TypePad: How To Display Author Bylines - 07/14/08 06:38 AM
A comment was left on one of my TypePad how-to posts with this question:
We would like to be able to differentiate between my posts and hers, but currently, typepad doesn't display any "posted by..." byline at the bottom of the page.
Here's where to set the Author Byline with a … (1 comments)
typepad: TypePad Custom CSS: A Revelation - 06/18/08 08:07 AM
You know you're screwed when you Google for an answer on something, and all that comes up is stuff you yourself already wrote on the topic.
Don't laugh. This actually happened to me yesterday.
I've written a lot of "how-to" posts here on AR about using both the WordPress and Typepad … (11 comments)
typepad: Top Right Bottom Left - 06/14/08 06:33 AM
Top Right Bottom Left
Huh? Right now I am using Active Rain as my personal notebook. (And you're looking over my shoulder)
Top Right Bottom Left is the sequence for setting the amount of padding around an element in CSS. I always had trouble remembering what order to put the positions … (6 comments)
typepad: Designing A Custom TypePad Theme - 04/21/08 08:43 AM
To download a printable, PDF of this post, click here A week or so ago, I posted about Modifying A WordPress Theme to accommodate the extra width needed to post a VFlyer. Then in a conversation here, I mentioned how much easier it would be to accomplish the same thing in TypePad. I thought I'd demonstrate … (4 comments)
typepad: TypePad: Remember The Publicize Tab - 04/19/08 03:02 PM
As most of you know, I run a few different blogs, some with WordPress.org, and some with TypePad. I just had one of those "Duhhhh..." Moments with one of the newer blogs on TypePad. I was tweaking stuff, and in the process, I happened to look at the source code and saw … (9 comments)
typepad: Congratulations Bonnie Erickson! - 01/30/08 08:31 AM
Hey, look at that! Real Estate Blogger and Active Rain Member Bonnie Erickson is today's TYPEPAD FEATURED SITE Way to go, Bonnie! Good job! Ya thinki if I type "YAY!" enough times, this post will count for points? :-) Okay. I can't control myself: YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY! … (12 comments)
typepad: Online Store: Old Dog, Old Tricks - 12/13/07 07:02 AM
This is, what, Day 5, of my online store challegene? The preceding episodes are here: Online Store/E-Commerce Online Store Brain Dump, Chapter Two Online Store Brain Dump, Chapter Three Online Store Brain Dump, Chapter Four Anyway, I signed up for a trial at Instant eStore as discussed in Chapter Four; it didn't take … (4 comments)
typepad: Give Them A Portal - 11/03/07 08:10 AM
I'd thought I'd pass along this idea, in case anyone else finds it useful over the holiday season. Every now and then there are some big events in people's lives .... weddings, graduations, new babies, anniversaries, reunions, whatever. And in this digital age, lots of different people take photos or videos of … (6 comments)
typepad: I Spoke Too Soon - 10/29/07 06:53 AM
Yesterday afternoon I was celebrating my new contributing author thingie on http://www.Nelalive.net . I spoke too soon. While the sidebar thingie looked great and worked just fine, the individual author landing pages turned out to have some issues with Firefox. They worked great in Internet Explorer. I think I can see the … (5 comments)
typepad: My Work Here Is Done. - 10/26/07 03:34 PM
Thank Goodness!!! Now that Bob Carney has sorted out his move from WordPress.com to WordPress.org I can stop diddling around with WordPress ... 'cuz I wuz only doing it to see if I could help out. Carney can take over the WordPress tutorials. So don't look for any further WordPress posts from … (7 comments)
typepad: Restoring Balance - 10/14/07 03:05 PM
I fiddled with WordPress so much the past few days, I was feeling a bit off kilter. Time to return to my TypePad roots. So, this morning, I made a new design in TypePad for NelaLive. http://www.nelalive.net Nothing too extreme. Just a little tease and fluff. A new improved banner, a … (5 comments)
typepad: Mother Gets A Life - 10/01/07 09:46 AM
Way back in June (!!) Brian Brady made this comment on one of my posts: "Be careful with that "Rain Kids" moniker. They might start calling you "Da Blogmother." " I thought it was kind of clever, so I registered the domain name: http://www.dablogmother.com and set up a blog on Typepad. Other than making a … (7 comments)
typepad: TypePad: More About TrackBacks - 08/11/07 08:18 AM
The first chapter in understanding TrackBacks is here. The second chapter goes like this: When folks send a TrackBack to your blog, nothing happens until you approve the TrackBack. Log in to your TypePad blog. Click the Weblogs tab. You'll see a list of your blogs like this: Notice the item titled TrackBacks: Clicking on … (9 comments)
typepad: Typepad: TrackBacks - 08/08/07 06:53 AM
It took me the longest time to figure out TrackBacks. In case you also look a little blank when someone mentions "TrackBacks" ... here is a little illustrated tour. My two demonstration blogs, "Cluttered Shelf" and "Frayed Cuffs" will assist. Suppose "Frayed Cuffs" wrote a great, incredibly brilliant post. "Cluttered Shelf" reads the brilliant … (9 comments)
typepad: TypePad: Lazy Blogger's Trick For Creating Pages - 07/29/07 06:16 PM
Let's say you have a TypePad blog, but you want it to act more like a website. It my previous post, I convered the steps to tell TypePad to display a "Page" as the front page of a website, rather than a list of blog posts. Here's a Lazy Blogger Trick for creating the content … (7 comments)
typepad: TypePad: Using The "Pages" Feature - 07/29/07 05:43 PM
Let's say you have a TypePad blog, but you want it to act more like a website. No problem. Here's how. Go in http://www.typepad.com/, Click "Members Sign In", and log in Click the "weblogs" tab Choose the blog you will be working on, and click "Configure" Click preferences Select "Display a Page on the front page", and choose a … (0 comments)
typepad: TypePad Guest Author: How To Insert An Image - 07/28/07 08:37 PM
Here's how to add images to your TypePad blog post. Prep work: Resize your image(s) for faster upload and faster display. If you are not sure how to resize, here are some articles by Active Rain contributors: http://activerain.com/action/search/search_results?searchfields=blogs&search=resize+images&commit=Search Then type (or copy and paste) your article in the "Compose New Post" box. Place … (3 comments)
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