ONE of the things I get asked quite often about Typepad is how to change the display of categories from the default alphabetic way.
You can order them by the time they were created, through the configuration tab, but it's a bit long winded.
Another way is to create a Typelist which allows you to feature your own text, HTML and links etc.
To do this click on Typelist and create a list, on the type option pick 'Notes' then give it a name. Maybe Sections?
Then in the window you can enter regular HTML so it could be something like this:
<a href="http://websitename.typepad.com/foldername/
cottages/index.html">Cottages</a>
<a href="http://websitename.typepad.com/foldername/
pool/index.html">Pool</a>
<a href="http://websitename.typepad.com/foldername/
guestbook/index.html">Gardens</a>
Each category is just an index page for the articles you place in it so you can create as many as you want - but I'd try to stay to less than ten for ease of use.
Then make sure that 'Sections' is featured when you go into design and drop the Categories from the column.
Make sure you keep the option to organise articles in Categories, you are using the feature but just setting them out differently.
Promise it isn't as difficult to do as it sounds!
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