FINDING OUT ABOUT TYPEPAD
TypePad offers an easy-to-use What You See Is What You Get. (WYSIWYG) post editor, so publishing content is as easy as creating a document in your preferred word-processing application. Furthermore, it’s easy to customize your blog’s appearance and functionality through the tools offered via your TypePad dashboard.
UNDERSTANDING TYPEPAD FEES
Most bloggers who use TypePad are happy with the features and services the application provides, but to truly be able to customize your blog and access enhanced functionality, you do need to pay for a more expensive account. Be sure to review the current pricing published on the TypePad web site (www.typepad.com/pricing) to see what you can get at different price points above the basic package.
TypePad users can choose from four types of accounts based on their needs and the costs associated with them as follows:
. Basic : The lease expensive option is the Basic Account that lets you create a blog and monetize it. Also, the Basic package is the only account option that
does not allow you to schedule blog posts to publish at a future date and time, which is a feature many bloggers rely on when they’re on vacation and
want to continue publishing content.
. Plus : The next package costs almost twice as much as the Basic package per month and adds features such as domain mapping to your personal domain
(to drop the .typepad.com from your blog’s URL) and the ability to create two more blogs tied to your existing account.
. Pro : The most expensive personal TypePad package, called the Pro package, costs nearly twice as much as the Plus package with the Pro package, you
get even more features, such as the ability to create an unlimited number of blogs and give an unlimited number of authors access to those blogs, as
well as enhanced design customization options.
. Business : The Business package costs about six times as much as the Pro package but adds a great deal of functionality that businesses need such as
annual billing and the ability to give more than one person administrative privileges on your blog.
The amount of storage space and bandwidth allocated to your blog differ significantly from one TypePad package to another. Be sure to check the current offerings to ensure the package you choose offers enough space to store your content as well as a high enough bandwidth to ensure your blog pages load quickly in visitor’s web browsers. You can always upgrade your account in the future, so don’t overbuy.
TypePad offers a free trial, so you can start a blog using TypePad and determine whether you’re happy with it before you have to pay anything. Just be sure to cancel your account before the trial period is over, to avoid charges.