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Just Your Style

In an effort to make it even easier for our TypePad Pro users to do cool things with their blog design, we created TypePad's new Custom CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) feature. You can now tailor the look and feel of your weblog without having to manage the complexity of advanced templates. By customizing the CSS instead of the templates, you can concentrate on the presentation of your weblog without having to worry about the underlying page structure.

And the best part of customizing the CSS rather than using advanced templates? Any time we add new features and content modules you'll be able to use them right away.

We asked Randy Reddig the TypePad engineer who developed this feature to tell us about why he created custom CSS and how you can take advantage of it on your blog.

Randy Reddig on Custom CSS

Q: What do you do at Six Apart?

A: I'm an engineer at Six Apart. I'm on sort of a long leave of absence from the gaming industry, implementing user interfaces. A typical day here involves wrangling JavaScript with a side of CSS to make our web apps hum. Some of the things I've done here include the standard Six Apart HTML and the new JavaScript libraries used in TypePad and Movable Type 3.2. Both the published side of things (weblogs) and the application interfaces present interesting challenges. I enjoy long walks in the park and am equally at home with contentEditable and unordered lists.

Food for thought

This post is the fifth in a series of interviews with TypePad engineers describing the new features in TypePad, how to use them, and what motivated us to develop these features. Many of these features were developed as part of our recent Scratchathon.

Lilia Ahner on the new Gourmet Theme in TypePad.

Q: What do you do at Six Apart?

A: I am a visual and interaction designer at Six Apart which means that I work on the "look and feel" of themes for TypePad and our partners, including Major League Baseball. I also design graphics for the TypePad application and the Six Apart website.

Feed Me, Seymour!

This post is the fourth in a series of interviews with TypePad engineers describing the new features in TypePad, how to use them, and what motivated us to develop these features. Many of these features were developed as part of our recent Scratchathon.

Ben Trott on the new Feeds TypeList.

Q: What do you do at Six Apart?

A: I'm the co-founder and CTO, which means that I'm involved with technical stuff on all of our products and engineering teams; but in practice I do engineering mostly on TypePad.

Getting Your Sidebar Just Right

This post is the third in a series of interviews with TypePad engineers describing the new features in TypePad, how to use them, and what motivated us to develop these features. Many of these features were developed as part of our recent Scratchathon.

Mark Paschal on the new Notes TypeList.

Q: What do you do at Six Apart?

A: I'm a general software developer on TypePad, so I design and write code to implement new features and fix bugs.

Podcasting Support in TypePad

This post is the second in a series of interviews with TypePad engineers describing the new features in TypePad, how to use them, and what motivated us to develop these features. Many of these features were developed as part of our recent Scratchathon.

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa on full podcasting support now supported in TypePad.

Q: What do you do at Six Apart?

A: I am a TypePad engineer, and I work mainly on API extensions and globalization of the application. I'm from Japan and I am based in Six Apart's Tokyo office, but I frequently visit our headquarters in San Francisco to do on-site development just like I've been doing for 2 months this summer.

Pick your Pics

This post is the first in a series of interviews with TypePad engineers describing the new features in TypePad, how to use them, and what motivated us to develop these features. Many of these features were developed as part of our recent Scratchathon.

Nick O'Neill on the new TypePad feature that allows you to choose which Photo Albums to display in your sidebar.

Q: What do you do at Six Apart?

A: I've been working in interface engineering on TypePad and I think the favorite part of my job is getting to work with such brilliant people. I get to learn new things about all different sides of TypePad and Movable Type almost daily.

Easier sidebar editing, full Podcasting support , XML Feeds and more

As of today, it is even easier for you to share and publish interesting content on your blog. Almost all of the new features are the result of direct requests from customers over the past few months; they're also enhancements that the TypePad development team – avid bloggers, all – have wanted themselves. Here is a brief overview of the new features we will be introducing during the course of this week.  However, don't feel you have to wait for us to illuminate the new features - go ahead and start exploring now!