Wow! I have been waiting for a feature like this almost as long as an eye cream that will REALLY work and reduce the bags under my eyes!! Check it out, Type Pad has Pages now! So lets say that you want to feature some information, or create a separate page for a calendar of events, etc... All you need to do is go to create a new page, type out the information that you want on that new page, and link the two, or have a separate home page for your blog. How easy is that? Read all about it here, and I will play around with the new feature and let you know how to implement it.
I gotta run now and cancel my web-hosting account and getting rid of my FTP software that I had to use if I wanted to create a stand alone page to go with my blog. Stay tuned!
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I am very excited about this feature too! I have been waiting for a long time for them to implement it. I was about to jump to WordPress but now I don't see the need :)
Posted by: isela | May 17, 2007 at 05:32 PM
this is a very nice feature. it could be much better if in near future we can assign a diferent design for each page as a choice!
Posted by: nelson d'aires | May 18, 2007 at 09:51 AM
Sometimes I think my blog www.athleticstrengthandpower.com is too busy....if it was wider, i think it would look much better. Anyway...I'm not quite sure what you mean by "pages"....maybe I have made some on my site through back door methods?
Will the new feature help me.
BTW, is this site a pre designed theme...or did you create it...it looks good.
Posted by: ASAP | May 18, 2007 at 09:47 PM
sorry...I didn't leave my contact info.... but, i'm still not quite sure how the new feature would help my site??
Posted by: ed cicale | May 19, 2007 at 03:15 PM
Actually it's always been possible to create stand alone pages using Typepad Pro and I've done this for at least two years already.
Just create a new template, set your tags to call the CSS, and the rest was simple html. The create a link on your main template and there you go. I was doing this prior to such being available on Wordpress, but it's nice to see Typepad finally make something accessible for everyone and being able to make a new page your front page opens up new possibilities for Typepad users that were not previously possible.
Posted by: Owen | May 19, 2007 at 04:54 PM
Ed,
Thanks for your comments. I checked out your site and yes, you have already created separate pages. For example, a category that you have archived posts shows up on one page, but like you said, the blog created that page for you, you didn't set out to create it yourself.
I think your blog is a huge resource for people, and you have a lot of content on your blog (BTW- my signicant other and I are huge fans of UFC and Rich Franklin). If you think it looks cluttered, try changing the background to white. My blog is just a custom template through TypePad, so you could play around with your template and see how it looks with a custom template.
How this new page feature would help you is that you could create a new 'Home Page' and then you could decide what you want that page to look like, and re-arrange your content categories and sidebar items.
Posted by: Kirsten Farris | May 20, 2007 at 12:21 PM