February 2010
Beginner
428 pages
9h 36m
English
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Chapter 16. Ten Places to Find TypePad Resources
In This Chapter
Finding more information resources offered by TypePad
Locating TypePad's Twitter feed
Engaging with other TypePad users in the Get Satisfaction forums
Reading what other bloggers have to say about TypePad
We hope that this book is giving you plenty of solid information for maximizing your TypePad experience. But we all know that technologies can change rapidly, and TypePad, in particular, is going through a season of frequent updates. You'll want to have access to sources beyond this book for finding the latest and greatest about TypePad. This chapter gives you ten helpful online resources. Visit all these sites often (many offer RSS feeds) to stay abreast of the offerings by TypePad. Especially with TypePad's frequent rollout of new features, having access to these sites will help you keep your blog on the cutting edge.
In Chapter 2, we explain that TypePad is not developed by an open-source community. This means that most new TypePad features are developed not by the community of users but by Six Apart, at the corporate level. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's what puts TypePad in a position to offer such stellar technical support: All the features are created and managed by Six Apart staff, so they're the ones who are in the best position to do the instructing. As a result, huge numbers of TypePad resources don't exist outside the Six Apart umbrella — most of the resources we list in this chapter have some affiliation ...
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