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Geysa replied on April 27, 2009 22:26 to the praise "happy birthday to a favorite Champion!" in Six Apart:

Happy b-day!!!

A comment on the problem "URL shortening not taking place when posting to Twitter" in Six Apart:

Hi Craig, Twitter's tinyURL integration has been spotty for quite some time now. Thus we are working on a project that will guarantee our post notifications don't get truncated. We'll post more details on our blog (http://everything.typepad.com) in the coming weeks. – Geysa, on April 27, 2009 20:45

Geysa replied on April 27, 2009 16:44 to the problem "URL shortening not taking place when posting to Twitter" in Six Apart:

This is an issue with Twitter, actually. Please see more information here
http://groups.google.com/group/twitte...

As you can see from Alex's post:
"TinyURL was running quite slow, so we temporarily disabled our
automatic shortening of long URLs.

We're currently working on a project to make the shortening of URLs
more consistent and predictable. We know it's currently kind of a
guessing game as to what will be shortened, and we want to fix that."

Geysa marked one of RobiNZ's replies in Six Apart as useful. RobiNZ replied to the problem "Removing the Powered by Typepad graphic".

Geysa replied on April 23, 2009 16:16 to the problem "Removing the Powered by Typepad graphic" in Six Apart:

The ability to show a blog footer is one of the most requested features we've ever gotten, therefore it's showing by default on new blogs that participate in the Beta program. As RobiNZ indicated, it's easy to modify or turn off in case the default footer doesn't meet your needs.

Geysa replied on April 22, 2009 19:56 to the question "blockquote is showing in editor" in Six Apart:

James, are you coding your blockquotes in HTML mode, or are you using the indent button in the Rich Text Editor? Also, which browser do you normally use to compose?

Geysa replied on April 08, 2009 01:49 to the question "How can I Add a Random Background Image to my TypePad Blog" in Six Apart:

Susan, did tomblack's recommendation work for you?

Geysa marked one of zalary's replies in Six Apart as useful. zalary replied to the problem "Blog Loads as unformated HTML".

A comment on the question "How can I Add a Random Background Image to my TypePad Blog" in Six Apart:

Susan, I'm not an expert on advanced templates, but I'll ask around for someone who can help you! – Geysa, on April 02, 2009 01:55

Geysa replied on April 02, 2009 01:25 to the problem "Blog Loads as unformated HTML" in Six Apart:

IslandBookworm and Duggan: do you see this all the time or is it intermittent? Also, have you tried CRTL->Refresh? If so, does it help?

A comment on the problem "Blog Loads as unformated HTML" in Six Apart:

Can you attach a screenshot? I'm able to see the blog perfectly. I tried it with IE7, FF3, Safari 4 and Chrome. All look good to me... – Geysa, on April 01, 2009 21:19

Geysa replied on April 01, 2009 18:28 to the question "Text Link Oddly Showing Up on Page in Safari" in Six Apart:

Susan,

when I load your blog it shows a number of HTML errors (see http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose...)

I believe some of these errors are causing your site to show the dots...

A comment on the question "How can I Add a Random Background Image to my TypePad Blog" in Six Apart:

Here's what I did:

For the background images:
Go to Control-Panel -> Files and upload the backgrounds you want

For the styling:
Go to Desgin -> Custom CSS and enter the code for the various backgrounds, using the URL of the images you just uploaded

For the javascript
Go to Design->Content
Under Categories, select "Widgets"
Under "Modules" select "Embed your own HTML"
Under "Details", click on "Add this module" button
A pop up will appear where you can put some HTML.
Enter the following (but remember to replace < when you see {, and > where you see })

{script type="text/javascript"}
var bgsArray=["backgroundBlue", "backgroundOrange", "backgroundPink"];
document.body.className="layout-three-column " + bgsArray[Math.floor(Math.random()*bgsArray.length)];

{/script} – Geysa, on April 01, 2009 18:23

Geysa replied on March 31, 2009 23:59 to the question "How can I Add a Random Background Image to my TypePad Blog" in Six Apart:

I took a look at the CSS and source code for weebirdy.com and saw the following script

[ script type="text/javascript" ]
function randomBG() {
var bgsArray=["backgroundBlue", "backgroundOrange", "backgroundPink"];
document.body.className="layout-three-column " + bgsArray[Math.floor(Math.random()*bgsArray.length)];
}

[/script]

(I changed < with [ otherwise it wouldn't post here)

They have defined the various background colors as follows:

.backgroundPink
{
background-color: transparent;
background-image: url(http://weebirdy.typepad.com/.a/6a00e5...);
background-repeat: repeat;
background-attachment: scroll;
background-position: center top;
}

A comment on the problem "Comments disappearing at random" in Six Apart:

Hi anmblog,

I would love to help out, but I need to understand what's going on first. You mentioned that "it seems like comments get published fine, but subsequently vanish from the Typepad system".

Can you walk me through how you notice that the comments vanish? – Geysa, on March 31, 2009 17:01

A comment on the problem "TypePad Bug: Comments CAPTCHA Test NOT Working!" in Six Apart:

Brian, I checked out the site http://hinessight.blogs.com/church_of... and left 4 comments, each using a different browser (IE, FF, Safari and Chrome).

I was able to see the CAPTCHA code and successfully post the comment. Could you please ask the blog visitor who's experiencing this issue to contact us with more details? – Geysa, on March 27, 2009 21:19

A comment on the problem "TypePad Bug: Comments CAPTCHA Test NOT Working!" in Six Apart:

Brian, can you tell us the URL for your blog? – Geysa, on March 27, 2009 18:42

Geysa replied on March 25, 2009 01:03 to the problem "Internet Explorer "Aborting" Web Site (My TypePad Blog)" in Six Apart:

I just tried to visit http://ben.casnocha.com using IE7 on a PC and was able to sucessfully load the page. No errors, no delay.

Geysa replied on March 23, 2009 23:32 to the praise "By being generous with their time and effort." in Six Apart:

Thank you for the kind words!

Geysa replied on March 11, 2009 23:43 to the idea "Add "Newest" and "Oldest" browsing options to List Posts page" in Six Apart:

Hi Marissa,

Have you ever tried to use the post search instead of navigating page by page? I find that using search helps me find the post I need much faster than using Newer or Older.

But if you still want a way to get to the oldest page, how about simply allowing the post table to be sorted by date?

thanks for the suggestion!