Andy's dashboard

Andy replied on December 16, 2009 22:41 to the question "Center of blog scroll while background stationary." in Six Apart:

Go to Design, Custom CSS and add the following statement:

#container { background-attachment: fixed; }

Save and view the blog. That will probably do it - if not pop the URL of the blog here.

Andy replied on December 11, 2009 01:15 to the question "persian/farsi support?" in Six Apart:

I sent a note to our staff that handle that region and they'll reply here as soon as possible.

Andy replied on December 10, 2009 20:05 to the question "How do you connect TypePad with Facebook groups?" in Six Apart:

I just created a test group and currently there is no easy way to hook your blog's updates into it (the Facebook API only allows us to update a Facebook Profile (real person) not a Group or a Page (company/public figure). Plus, you can't hook your blog's feed into a Group. The don't allow you to add Applications to Groups either. Hopefully they'll open this open soon.

Andy replied on December 10, 2009 18:05 to the question "Why does a number show up with my profile id when commenting on blogs?" in Six Apart:

Teresa is this on a Blogger blog? If so there's a big on our side if you sign in to comment with your TypePad profile as an OpenID where it shows the long userID and not the custom URL.

Either way can you send me a link to a comment where it is showing this behavior? Thanks for helping me troubleshoot.

Andy replied on December 10, 2009 17:49 to the question "Why does a number show up with my profile id when commenting on blogs?" in Six Apart:

I'm going to post a couple test comments. Just wanted to warn you in advance. Be right back.

Andy replied on December 09, 2009 19:16 to the problem "Custom Favicon Issues" in Six Apart:

The slash next to the folder just means you can't delete it. But you can click on the folder to see its contents or upload a file/image.

Yes for each blog, you'll put the favicon file in the corresponding folder on your account thru File Manager.

Andy replied on December 09, 2009 18:10 to the question "Why does a number show up with my profile id when commenting on blogs?" in Six Apart:

Teresa what is your profile URL?

Andy set one of Andy's replies as an official response to "Custom Favicon Issues" in Six Apart

Andy replied on December 09, 2009 18:05 to the problem "Custom Favicon Issues" in Six Apart:

Hey M.A. I work at TypePad and I think I got it fixed. Since the domain mapping is mapping to the full TypePad account URL + the blog folder: belizetips.typepad.com/belize-tips/ you need to add the favicon to the /belize-tips/ folder. I did so and it appears to be working now.

Andy replied on December 04, 2009 20:02 to the question "TypePad caching question" in Six Apart:

Thnx. I'll add your blog to our bug report.

Andy replied on December 04, 2009 19:40 to the question "TypePad caching question" in Six Apart:

There seem to be cache-ing hiccups for some domain-mapped domains - I know this has been escalated to our engineers and ops team. It looks like your test blog isn't domain mapped - is it?

Andy replied on December 04, 2009 19:37 to the question "TypePad caching question" in Six Apart:

That shouldn't be happening - I'll check with our datacenter-folk, I know they are always re-optimizing the cache-ing mechanisms.

Andy replied on December 03, 2009 20:52 to the question "Is more microblog flexibility possible?" in Six Apart:

You can make a linked list of the categories you'd like to appear. The HTML isn't auto-generated, unfortunately so it won't re-update as you add/remove categories.

Andy replied on December 03, 2009 18:37 to the question "wanted: pagination-bar code for advanced templates" in Six Apart:

I think page might have what you're looking for: http://everything.typepad.com/blog/pa...

Andy replied on December 02, 2009 18:41 to the question "Is more microblog flexibility possible?" in Six Apart:

If you have a TypePad Micro account (the free level of TypePad), you cannot customize the Chroma theme beyond adding a new banner and choosing a new palette.

If you have a Chroma-themed blog with TypePad Pro (one of the paid levels of TypePad), you'll see a HTML field you can add whatever you'd like to the sidebars and a Custom CSS field if you'd like to make theme tweaks in that manner.

Andy replied on December 02, 2009 18:14 to the question "How do i use "Individual Archives" in advanced templating?" in Six Apart:

Individual Archives determine the look of one post on it's own page.

You can do the faux category archive idea but you're right: you aren't able to over-ride the built in category archive permalinks.

Depending on the changes you are making you could put a category class in the BODY tag so you can hide/show the elements you want to for different categories.

So if the BODY tag was:

<body class="layout-three-column-right" />

You would add an extra class for the the category archives:

<body class="layout-three-column-right category-archive-<$MTCategoryLabel dirify=">

Which would give you output like:

<body class="layout-three-column-right category-archive-news" />

or

<body class="layout-three-column-right category-archive-music" />

or

<body class="layout-three-column-right category-archive-sports" />

So then you can hide/show what you need to.

Not sure if this gets you any closer to what you're trying to do.

Andy replied on December 01, 2009 17:38 to the question "Generate MicroBlog Teaser?" in Six Apart:

I successfully added it to my test blog here http://andywibbels.blogs.com/12345/ (on the right side).

here's the code with the brackets switched around:

[div class="module-feed module"]
[h2 class="module-header"]Pressemitteilungen[/h2]
[div class="module-content" id="feed-173e2be35fff3de7de4e03d2d326f6c7bd6afacf"]
[script type="text/javascript" defer="defer" src="http://andywibbels.blogs.com/.services/content?src=Feed:http%3A%2F%2Fecc.typepad.com%2Fpressemitteilungen%2Fatom.xml,5"][/script]
[/div]
[/div]

Andy marked one of Ashley Hennig's replies in Six Apart as useful. Ashley Hennig replied to the question "Changing Photos on TypePad Blog's Homepage".

Andy replied on November 30, 2009 17:53 to the question "Generate MicroBlog Teaser?" in Six Apart:

Unfortunately you can't refer to other blogs in your TypePad account with MTEntries, it contains only the blog being displayed. You can create a template that generates a JavaScript that will output the posts. I added a feed in a non-Advanced design so we can reverse engineer to get you where you want to be.

<div class="module-feed module">
<h2 class="module-header">Name of Feed</h2>
<div class="module-content">
<script type="text/javascript" defer="defer"
src="http://yourusername.typepad.com/
.services/content?
src=Feed:http%3A%2F%2Fyour-otherblogs-domain.com%2Ffeed-file-name%2F,5">
</script>
</div>
</div>

Andy replied on November 30, 2009 17:40 to the question "Updated my Twitter id, now I can't access my original blog. Help?!" in Six Apart:

You've created two TypePad accounts, each with one blog. It looks like you may have inadvertently started a Micro account instead of just adding a Micro blog to your first account. When you talk about Twitter are you referring to signing in to TypePad with Twitter or sharing posts to Twitter?