4 posts tagged “typepad”
Well... I'll usually declare allegiance to the vampires—I understand them best. I relate to them... I've been called (and compared to) them. And I'm fine with that.
I'VE BEEN CAREFULLY PLOTTING AND PLANNING MY NEXT "BIG MOVES," and though the details have been (sorta) made public, I've kept only my tightly-knit personal group informed.
I plan on ditching TypePad (at least for now), sticking with Vox in the mean-time, and I have no plans to change my Livejournal account (as I don't trust the fate of the company).
The biggest addition to my "Bradtastic Lifestyle" is Squarespace. I've been thoroughly impressed by their lightning-fast customer service and support, and their wonderful interface called "V5." The easy-to-edit WYSIWYG stylings will allow me to focus on the writing instead of code, but the feature that really sold me is Daring Fireball's Smartypants — built-in.
As a writer/illustrator/designer with a love for typography and a penchant for perfection, normal blogs' lack of “smart quotes” (alongside lousy blog editors) has been quite bothersome. Just when I was about to give up on my smart quote fantasy, I found an option to enable my saviour-software.
And I was sold.
I was going to leave TypePad without much fanfare or a farewell, but marinesetwas convinced me to send Six Apart my feedback. He likes their service, as does Warner Crocker, so I thought, why not? And I thought I'd share my review with y'all as well—it'll likely appear at Bradtastic.com or my new secret site.
I'm also sharing with you lucky, lucky people, the (partial) list of my Kindle contents! (Exciting!) Until then... stay sexy.
I'm not happy about TypePad.
What I try to get from my Eee PC alone is quite silly. I try to use it like any non-netbook, opening too many windows and tabs, running too many applications simultaneously. The netbook is too good and I can't understand how they're not selling too many copies.
I'm trying to change this behavior—opening too many Firefox windows and tabs—and that's really very-funny, if you know how I feel about "try." [The world doesn't give a fuck about "try"—but that's a topic for another time, and another blog.]
I've been using my Backpack to store information and files... I really dig it. Lifehacker has show me some alternatives, but none better (for me) so far. I'm trying to plan out my (what looks like, now) 2009 Bradtastic re-release... and it's thrilling and intimidating. My hope is that, by listing as much as I can in Backpack, I'll get what I want from this change.
I've been looking at this Livescribe Pulse Pen... interested-enough to add the 2GB version to my Amazon Wishlist. It's not quite a slate tablet alternative, but it has its advantages, too. I've used OneNote on my Tablet with some success, but I've always felt limited by the tablet's battery-life or power-cord tether. It was never really a paper notebook replacement. I think that the Pulse pen (and paper... duh) could really add something... and I'd like to have the ability to sync drawings, writings, sketches, designs, doodles and notes with voice recordings, simultaneously—and from a single device (system).
I've asked about it around the microblogs and have received some feedback and I've read some of the reviews. It's not quite a Montblanc, but... maybe it'd help?
Now, back to what I've been doing: organizing and bookmarking (sometimes sharing) sites currently taking up way too many Firefox browsers and tabs... and reading! [Most of my recent "free" time has been spent reading blogs, news and books on my Kindle. I love the Kindle.]
PART OF THIS BIG AWESOME CHANGE, I'm going to use a professional blogging platform. "Free" isn't really free, and WordPress and one-clicks are time-consuming with security updates, new releases and lack of tech-support. I like Media Temple hosting because they have someone I can call if there's a problem. I'd like a managed blog for some of the same reasons.
I'd like to spend more of my time writing instead of installing new platform versions, UI upgrades and dealing with backend issues. I want to write about love, life, work, stressers, society, crime, safety, dating and socialization (including education and travel)... occasionally sharing the other things that make me who I am.
I was thinking that this would be simple... I'd use TypePad. The professionals use TypePad. But I keep finding myself sitting in front of the screen with a funny taste in my mouth... though I like what I "hear" from people about the service... I think the sites look ugly. Some of them, REALLY UGLY.
Somehow, I got to subscribing the TypePad newsletter (I used to use Livejournal religiously; writing all of the time to collect comments from complete strangers, generally receiving the most comments from entries with camho-ish self-portraits), one day they announce several (I forgot the exact number) "new templates for TypePad users!"
Cool. New templates. So I took a look at them, and each one of them has multiple color choices. It's clear from the tone of the email, TypePad is proud of the new designs. They look horrible...
There are good things about TypePad... and what about Squarespace?
