Last week, John Unger over at TypePadHacks.org dropped me a note to let me know that I was given an “AHA” award for my blog redesign. It actually mentions “Disruptive Telephony“, but I’ll note the award here since this blog shares the same design and I write about blogging here. He notes my use of the three-column hack and also the menu bar hack. I do definitely appreciate the notice and feedback, so thanks, John, but I’ll really say thanks back to John and all the other members of the TypePad Hacks community who have put together the various “hacks”. The site does make it very easy for someone to learn how to tweak their blog in different ways. I’ve learned a good bit from the site and have more ideas for things I’ll do to these blogs once I can find some more of that mythical thing called free time…
P.S. Also check out the “landing page” of the other award winner, David Alexander. It’s nicely done and something I’ve been thinking about doing with another page (Hint… you’ll notice that I’m missing an “About” link here. Stay tuned…)
Dan,
don’t know if you’ve left a comment on your blog since changing to the 3 col layout, but if so, you noticed the same problem I had with it… the preview/captcha displays in the sidebar instead of the post area.
I figured out how to fix it and wrote it up here: http://www.typepadhacks.org/2007/02/how_to_hack_any.html
rock on.
John,
Yes, I did notice that and found it rather annoying… I was going to explore it the next time I went into site-tweaking mode. Hmmm… so I need to create a new one-column layout and then manually copy over all the templates, eh? Sounds like a bit of work… but I’ll take a look at doing that. Thanks for keeping on the issue and figuring it out!
Regards,
Dan
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