My experience using my iPad and G-Mail to post on my Typepad blog

I tried using G-Mail on my iPad to post to my blog which is on the
Typepad platform if you follow all that. My conclusion: there's no
way to use the formatting tools in G-Mail to send a post to this blog.

My only choice is this skinned-down version of G-Mail which allows
only the simple sending of e-mails. That really reduces the utility
of the iPad as a primary computing device.

My primary computer--a Mac Book Air--is in the shop and I'm trying to
see how far I can use my iPad. I'm posting this using G-Mail going
directly into Typepad.

I have plenty of things I'd like to post about where I would like to
include still pictures and video. I am using Apple's external
keyboard.