typepad thoughts

i use a tool called typepad to create this website. i have been a typepad user for a number of years and love the service, but like users of most products, i have some ideas for ways i think it could be improved. i thought i'd take a few minutes and document these, in case they're useful or other people want to comment.

1) i love the reading & music lists, but readers can only see the last few books in the list on the site. i wish the title of the list would jump to a view of the complete set.

2) i wish typelists and photo albums had rss support so users could subscribe to changes on these lists alongside or independently from the main blog.

3) i use a photo album view that has one selected image and thumbnails of the other photos in the album. the page can take ages to load if the album is large, but the primary photo is loaded last. i wish the main photo was the first to load so people didn't have to wait for all of the thumbnails to come in.

4) i wish the site had simple ui for creating page banners from personal photos (including support for cropping and scaling photos to size).

5) since upgrading to vista, i can't seem to get my book typelists to automatically find book images based on author/title anymore. it used to work fine, but now i have to put in the isbn number for it to find the image on amazon. (i guess this is a bug)

6) i wish i could use elements from the template i create for my blog (such as typeface and colours) and use them for a photo album. i want these to be visually similar, and they aren't today.

7) i wish customers could share their themes or sixapart focused more on creating new themes/templates for users. the ones available are good but pretty limited.

Comments

[Sarah Sosiak]

Thanks. :-).

[Lain]

Great comments! I had the same thing happen with the book images, I think even before I upgraded to Vista, so I think it's another change in Typepad rather than a Vista thingy.

I have been having so many problems with my banner lately! A nice easy UI would be awesome.

I think they should hire you to correct these issues. ;)
xoxox
L