Yesterday afternoon I was celebrating my new contributing author thingie on http://www.Nelalive.net . I spoke too soon. While the sidebar thingie looked great and worked just fine, the individual author landing pages turned out to have some issues with Firefox. They worked great in Internet Explorer.
I think I can see the issue; but can't quite put my hands on the solution. It has to do with the way Typepad header modules expand, and when the expanded code is copied into a new page, somehow FF doesn't render the new page as a web page, FF just displays the html code.
I deleted yesterday's post, I've never deleted an Active Rain post after publishing it before, and I hope Maureen M. won't be too p'd off over losing comment points. <s>
Much has been written about the differences between Internet Explorer and Firefox in the standards compliance department. As you may know, Firefox is highly standards-compliant. IE is a bit sloppy.
I have the low-road work-around ready in my pocket. (Creating categories for authors using the category landing page as the author's page.) I was trying not to go that way since it seemed inelegant to me, but, oh well.
Tabled until this coming weekend.
UPDATE: TYPEPAD TECH SOLVED THE MYSTERY.
WHEN MANUALLY CREATING ADDITIONAL PAGES, YOU NEED TO MANUALLY ADD THE FILE EXTENSION (.HTML) IN THE OUPUT FILE BOX....
Like, aw, man, duuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, I need to reupload all the files I deleted.
UPDATE #2: DONE AND WORKING. Each contributor can have individualized sidebars on their landing page. (They'll need to email with particulars). Now maybe I should think about those RSS feeds.
Oh how could you after my wonderful, meaningful, intellignet, well thought out comment... oh well I'll get over it.
It looked great I must have been in sloppy old IE, or maybe I did not look futher than your home page... I think all my comment said was I never realized that the Bloodhound Blog contributors rotated. Good luck. Keep us posted.
I'm actually thinking it is a curious little TypePad buglet, since I really spent some time cleaning up the code early this morning. Here's a sample I left up to show them when I write a support ticket later today:
http://www.nelalive.net/author
Viewed in IE, it works just fine; and you see just Seth's Farmers Market posts.
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Viewed in Firefox, it just displays the source code like this:
Meanwhile, Bloodhound has raised the bar. His contributor list now includes individual RSS feeds. Hmmm.
When I read " I Spoke Too Soon " my first thought was about your post about WP.org... " My Work Here is Done" I hoped you'd decided to stay with WP.org and post all the tutorials I need all the time.... I am so self centered.
I saw the upgrade on Bloodhound .... In response to Joel Burslem's comments about the big multi author blogs...on The Future of Real Estate Marketing a bout too many channels? Too much noise?
Will I ever find the time to make a living and keep up with Cheryl at the same time? Not in this lifetime. <s>
Mike in Tucson