Navigation Bars in Typepad

One of the little-noticed features of the new Typepad platform is that your blog can now have a horizontal menubar just below the banner. 

If your blog is on the new Typepad platform here's how to add and maintain your own menubar:

1. Click on the Design Tab
2. Click on Content 
3. Look for 'Navigation Bar' and turn it on.
4. Click on the Edit icon the little pencil) associated with the Navigation Bar feature. 
5. FIll in the titles and URLs in the popup window 

Up until now, the only way to have a menubar was to have a geek set it up for you.  Usually, this meant using 'Advanced Templates' which means giving up a lot of flexibility and control over changing the layout and content f your sidebars.

In the past, the method I used was to add some javascript to the page that would re-write the banner layer and add the menubar.  This lefty you in control over the sidebar content but it still didn't allow the non-geek to manage the menubar.

This is great news, particularly for people who want to use their blog as a website as well.