testing new theme for monica - a frog theme, now all we need to do is get her to switch to Radio :)

test2

last test, then time for bed

tweaking thoughts/to do/to finish on design

1. center right column
2. fix font sizes
3. create frog permalink graphics
4. figure out how to get the black line from appearing
5. fix the color of the body background - its suppose to be whispy white to match the foggy background
6. maybe float the boxes a little more towards the right
7. collapse borders

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Designs

interesting i created a typepad account just to figure out how to design a theme for a friend and discovered a few things:

1. the 30 day free trial really isn't free, you still have to put in your credit card information before they will even create an account for you
2. you can't design your own themes unless you pay for the pro version which is 89.50/year
3. and the basic version which you can't design your own themes for is 49.50/year (radio's cheaper)
4. and you can't ftp the basic version anywhere, you can export posts but not ftp to another hosting site

so why do people want to use typepad instead of radio? because you can create your own domain names? is that the only benefit? I think Userland is thinking about doing that in the future, the whole number thing is kinda of confusing but then again with Radio you can ftp your blog to your own host and your own domain name.

now if you have Radio, you can:

1. design your own themes
2. its only 40/year
3. you can ftp it to your own host
4. and its one version - there aren't different levels of radio - its all included
5. you can download the trial version, try if out for free and then pay for it

so I guess I'll have the design the theme for my friend here on my site and then convince her to switch, it would save her some money and she can use the design i'm going to create for her.

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