My own little concept for marking my spot as a TypePad beta tester. A small badge, with ‘TPBETA’ on the left, and ‘1505’ on the right. 1505 is the ID number for my TP blog — obviously, the older the blog, the lower the ID number will be. Just another idea to toss into the mix of ideas running around right now. 
On the off chance anyone wants to duplicate this, I used the Kalsey Button Maker with the following settings:
- Outer border:
666666 - Inner border:
ffffff - Bar position:
50pixels from left - Left box:
- Text:
tpbeta
- Text:
- Background:
006699
- Background:
- Text color:
ffffff
- Text color:
- Text start:
5pixels from left
- Text start:
- Right box:
- Text:
1505
- Text:
- Background:
dddddd
- Background:
- Text color:
000000
- Text color:
- Text start:
4pixels from the bar
- Text start:
Update (prompted by Grumpy’s comment): You can find your blog ID# by logging into your TypePad admin page, going to your weblog editing screen, and checking the address bar of your browser. The end of the URL will look something like blog_id=1505 — there you go!
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Tip: TPBeta User Button.
Following a tip from American Swami News via e-mail a new button has emerged for TypePad Beta Users. It includes your TypePad user ID and looks quite attractive and is nice for TypePad users to use without alienating everyone else.
TP Beta ID
Yet another button I’ve added. This happens when you have too much time on your hands. This also happens when you cannot sleep in normal hours, like normal people.
Oops!
Well, er… What can I say other than sorry. I didn’t mean to cause offense, if anything, it was meant to offset the growing (and misplaced - in my opinion) snobbery among Typepad users, to cement the sense of
TPBeta button
[Via Eclecticism] Here’s my new button. Now, how am I going to get it into my template? UP
Get involved…
Come on TP Beta Testers! Get into the act. Get labeled. Just get with it! If you haven’t made your button yet… DO IT!!
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That’s a great idea; but, please tell me — where do I find my ID number? I’ve looked high and low and can’t see anything that resembles a Typepad ID nubmer.
Disregard. I believe I just discovered it — in the Address line.
Here is something for you. For those who might use multiple blogs within a blog, every blog you create starts a new blog id. I just played around with mine and found that out.
I emailed Raymond over at @Typepad to let him know of your idea. Its so wonderful. I hope others use it.
I wondered about that. Damn, and here I could have had 1503, since I played around a bit with a couple ideas before finally settling down…;)
474, huh?
Yeah, I guess I was quick, eh?
I don’t know why, but i feel compelled to point out that my TypePad blog ID is 60.
Well, yeah, but you…you’re…
ADAM KALSEY.
Without whom, my cute lil’ ‘TPBETA’ button would have been much harder to create.
Without whom, I wouldn’t have that nifty ‘Related Posts’ sidebar on my other weblog (one of the few things I’ll miss if/when I move to TypePad permanently).
Without whom, I wouldn’t have waxed nostalgiac and inflicted my Newly Digital post on the unsuspecting web (well, okay, not entirely true, since it was a rehash of an earlier post).
Okay, I’m done. Annoying enough?
Seriously, though, it’s been amusing me. Apparently that little ‘TPBETA’ button has caught on, I’m catching glimpses of it on quite a few TypePad sites as I bounce around. It’s cool and all, but I swear — 95% of the buttons I see have lower numbers than mine! I tell ya, seeing things like that just does wonders for one’s ego.
Hmm. I think my blog’s 32. Now I feel bad for having created and deleted about a dozen others, I think I remember having #4.
The button is great!
Similar to Anil… “why didn’t I log on sooner,” I said to myself with #958.
You’re giving me entirely too much credit. The only reason I have a low number is I whined at Anil to give me access to the alpha test so that we could make sure Zempt worked with it.
Feel free to use my number in your button. Live vicariously though me.
Well, sure I am. But somebody’s gotta do it, right?
And I can make myself #60, huh? Ooooh…(rubs his hands together, cackling with glee)…one more step on the road to global domination!
Or something like that.
How exactly do you figure out yer blog # ?
disregard. i saw the Update to the post.
Brilliant idea!
Excuse my ignorance, but do you have to be a Pro user to add the button? I’m a Plus user and can’t figure out how to add one.
No excuses necessary! Here’s one solution I’ve seen, it should work for either Plus or Basic users:
Hopefully all this helped!