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Cosmo asked a question in Six Apart on February 04, 2009 00:09:

How are blogs featured?

Hi Typepad. I am loving this getsatisfaction thing you have set up. I have a question. How do you choose what blogs get featured on your homepage? I really believe my blog has what it takes to be there. Would you even consider my blog to be featured? It is http://www.blosmo.com . Thanks!

A comment on the idea "Allow Typelists for the header and footer" in Six Apart:

Yes, but what I'm talking about is something like http://www.gizmodo.com see the very top of the blog where they have an ad on the right? I want to implement something like that. Not just some text links on the nav bar. – Cosmo, on February 03, 2009 22:49

A comment on the idea "Make HTML Editable W/out Advanced Templates" in Six Apart:

Hi Ginerva. I'd like to see a section for the blog overall where I can put in tracking codes for other sites without having to make a page, code for the header, code for the footer, post footer, anything else? Also, see my other idea about typelists for header and footer. It's a good idea. – Cosmo, on February 03, 2009 22:45

A comment on the idea "Make HTML Editable W/out Advanced Templates" in Six Apart:

what do you mean "viewing the blog itself?" Now that I think of it, having something like Blogger where it just says Here, edit your code is a bad idea. Most of us don't know where to look. Coding is very complicated. What if there was something where each part of your blog (header, footer, overall design, etc) in the Design section has an editable text box containing the code. There should be something on the side that tells users EXACTLY what each piece of code does, how to change it, and how to add code. Like it? – Cosmo, on February 03, 2009 22:43

Cosmo started following the question "TypePad Features, Tools, Templates and More" in Six Apart.

A comment on the idea "Allow Typelists for the header and footer" in Six Apart:

teach you? This is only an idea if you bothered to read it.... – Cosmo, on February 01, 2009 21:45

Cosmo shared an idea in Six Apart on January 31, 2009 23:22:

Allow Typelists for the header and footer

My previous idea was to make HTML editable throughout the whole blog. My revised idea which I think makes a lot of sense is to allow typelists for the header and footer. Do you like this? Tell me what you think Typepad!

A comment on the idea "Make HTML Editable W/out Advanced Templates" in Six Apart:

right right. Yeah I would like to make the banner editable too, not just add an image. To put ads there would be very useful. Forgot about that. – Cosmo, on January 31, 2009 03:26

Cosmo marked one of IslandBookworm's replies in Six Apart as useful. IslandBookworm replied to the idea "Make HTML Editable W/out Advanced Templates".

Cosmo shared an idea in Six Apart on January 30, 2009 15:58:

Make HTML Editable W/out Advanced Templates

I've talked to some people at Typepad about this idea already, but I guess I'll give it again here. I think there should be some feature in Typepad that allows users to directly edit the HTML-without switching to Advanced Templates. When you switch to Advanced Templates, all your prior design changes are completely lost and you have to start from scratch adding code (which I don't know how to do). There's sometimes some really great thing I find online for my blog-but it requires you to add code in a specific part of your blog. I am mainly looking at customizing my post footers using some code. Blogger has this feature for FREE, while I'm paying Typepad nearly $200 without this feature. Either make HTML editable, OR make Advanced Templates a lot easier to use somehow. Tell me what you think.

-Cosmo

Cosmo started following the idea "Option for text/html at top of Typepad category pages" in Six Apart.