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Michael Sippey replied on July 09, 2009 03:09 to the question "Typepad Connect Comments: How can get different background colors for odd and even-numbered comments?" in Six Apart:

Hi! Here's a quick CSS recipe for coloring comment rows differently... Note that TypePad connect only provides CSS selectors for the "even" rows, so the "odd" rows are implied. And the "even" selector is only applied when comments are displayed in a "flat" list -- not a threaded one. But I just tested this out using the excellent product CSSEdit on a test blog of mine, and it worked. (Your mileage may vary, of course.)


#tpe-content #tpe-comments-content .even {
background-color : yellow;
}


You can set the background-color to whatever you'd like. The combination of those two preceding divs (tpe-content and tpe-comments-content are required to override the defaults on the .even class. But you could probably hack around that by doing something like this (not recommended, and again, your mileage may vary):


.even {
background-color : yellow !important;
}


Hope that helps!

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Michael Sippey replied on March 26, 2009 19:49 to the problem ""Select Next Tab" keyboard shortcut broken in Safari 4 Public Beta" in Apple:

I just created my own custom keyboard shortcut in system preferences to have CTRL+arrow keys work to cycle between tabs, and it worked like a charm.

Michael Sippey replied on February 24, 2009 14:49 to the problem "TypePad email blocked as spam by Go Daddy servers" in Six Apart:

Christine -- thanks for the report! We work with an email service provider to deliver our newsletters, and we'll work with them to see what we can do to prevent this from happening in the future.

Michael Sippey replied on January 20, 2009 06:15 to the idea "Option for manually entering future dates" in Six Apart:

@Marissa -- thanks for the suggestion!

Michael Sippey replied on January 20, 2009 06:14 to the question "Explain image URLs in TypePad and why they differ" in Six Apart:

Hey, Brad! That's definitely not the intention! We're still inserting photos into blog posts using standard image tags, the same way we've always done, and any way you get your posts -- via the web, via an RSS feed, through an import / export format or through the API -- they'll always include those image tags, which will point to images that you can download yourself.

The thing we have done is change the way the filename for the image is constructed, but that won't impact your ability to retrieve those images in the future.

And Brad and @IslandBookworm, we are looking at new ways to give you access to all the content you add to your blog, and we'd love to hear your ideas about how we can make that better / easier for you.

Thanks!

Michael Sippey replied on January 07, 2009 06:27 to the question "Log in and comment problems" in Six Apart:

Deb -- I'm sorry this is happening! I definitely recommend filling a help ticket on that through support; they have great tools on hand to fix these kinds of problems.

Michael Sippey replied on December 29, 2008 16:59 to the question "Banner stops navigation bar from working" in Six Apart:

Hey, Chris! What's the URL of your blog? I'll see what I can do to help...

Michael Sippey replied on November 24, 2008 00:24 to the question "Transitioning to Typepad Connect from Disqus on Typepad with Advanced Templates" in Six Apart:

Hey, Stowe! With TypePad Connect in beta right now, we've yet to ship import / export tools. This is something we plan on doing before we get to the official release, and at that point we'll have the capability to migrate between commenting systems.

Michael Sippey asked a question in Pheltup on May 22, 2008 07:09:

More invites?

Hey, has anyone heard if the Pheltup folks are gonna distribute more invites soon?

Michael Sippey, an employee of Six Apart, replied on October 13, 2007 00:20 to the problem "Approve comments in email doesn't work" in Six Apart:

Yeah, that's an interesting suggestion.

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Michael Sippey, an employee of Six Apart, replied on October 13, 2007 00:20 to the problem "One of RSS feeds from Typepad (via Feedburner) is empty" in Six Apart:

On specific issues like these, you should definitely file a help ticket by visiting the Control Panel > Help tab. Thanks!

Michael Sippey, an employee of Six Apart, replied on October 13, 2007 00:19 to the idea "Would be good to offset featured posts" in Six Apart:

Hey, Stowe! We actually do provide a different class name on the DIV for featured posts, so you can use our Custom CSS feature to style that to your heart's content. A normal entry will be wrapped in a div that looks like this:

div class="entry"

A featured entry will be wrapped in a div that looks like this:

div class="entry-featured entry"

So in your Custom CSS you can add something like...

.entry-featured {
padding : 10px;
background-color : pink;
}

...to put the featured post on a pink background and add some padding around it for good measure.

Hope that helps!

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Michael Sippey, an employee of Six Apart, replied on October 11, 2007 16:47 to the problem "Create a 'reorder' ability for Typelists" in Six Apart:

Absolutely -- we want to be able to provide this, it's definitely a top feature request. The event list is a great use case for this, though I can also imagine a specific type of list that lets you order items by date...

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Michael Sippey, an employee of Six Apart, replied on October 11, 2007 16:44 to the problem "Need tag field in the Typepad Quickpost" in Six Apart:

Ah, this is great feedback and we'll add this to the list for improving QuickPost...

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