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Advanced Template Sets and Template Tags
Templates in the TypePad system are your method of defining the design and layout of your site. Templates describe the exact layout of your weblog in HTML.
This document explains more about Advanced Template Sets and provides an overview of the most commonly-used template tags. It also links to the default templates. You can use these as examples to work from, or restore your weblog templates from them if something goes wrong in your template creation.
What are Advanced Template Sets?
Advanced Template Sets are templates that can be customized through direct editing of HTML, CSS and TypePad template tags. Advanced Template Sets are created when existing designed are converted to Advanced Template Sets (see Designing Your Weblog).
Should I use Advanced Template Sets or Custom CSS?
In actuality, TypePad's Custom CSS feature should be adequate to meet most people's design needs. Most designers should find TypePad's CSS and class structure easy to work with. Using Custom CSS, a designer can easily create variants on existing layouts, modify and tweak existing styles, and also add background images throughout a weblog to create technically advanced designs.
On the other hand in rare circumstances, Custom CSS may be inadequate to meet the demands of your weblog's design requirements. In such cases Advanced Template Sets allow you to take complete control over every aspect of your weblogs design, layout and HTML structure.
Another reason to use advanced templates is when you need to import an existing weblog from another application or service into TypePad.
Users should be aware, however, that when a design is converted to an Advanced Template Set, many features that will make future weblog design changes easier will be disabled.
- Change your weblog's layout
- Change the style of certain elements of your weblog's design without having to edit CSS
- Add, delete and customize sidebar content modules like Amazon Wishlist, Text Ads, TypeLists, etc
- Turn on and off various archive types
- Drag and drop content module layout editor
See Creating an Advanced Template Set to set up an advanced template set for your weblog.
Template Tag Reference
- Template Tag Syntax - the anatomy of a template tag
- Default Templates - contains a list of all the default weblog templates
- Template Modules
Tag Index
- Album - The Album tags are for displaying a listing of your Photo Albums on your weblog.
- Archive - The Archive tags are for displaying information about your weblog archives.
- Calendar - The Calendar tags are for displaying the sidebar calendar.
- Category - The Category tags are for displaying information about your weblog categories.
- Comment - The Comment tags are for displaying the comments posted by visitors to your weblog.
- Post - The Post tags are for displaying information about your weblog posts.
- Text Ads - The text ad tags are for displaying text ads configured on your weblog.
- TrackBack - The TrackBack tags are for displaying TrackBack pings sent to your weblog.
- TypeList - The TypeList tags are for displaying data from your TypeLists.
- User - The User tags are for displaying your Author Profile information.
- Weblog - The Weblog tags are for displaying information about your weblog.
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