Posterous guide

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Go to posterous.com and sign up for an account.

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Quick guide to starting a posterous site.

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Go to posterous.com and sign up for an account.

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Choose ‘site’ if you want a public ‘blog’.

Choose ‘group’ if you want a private space for your team or group of friends.

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Posterous is really easy to use because you can just email your text, photos, videos and audio

updates to your site.The subject line of your email becomes the title of your post.

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As well as just emailing your updates to the site, you can post directly from the website, by clicking

on ‘post by web’.

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1. Make sure you give your entry a title.

2. If you want to write text, write here. Or if you want to add a caption to photos, video or audio,

add it here.

3. Click on ‘upload image, audio, video and docs’ to

upload material from your computer.

4. Click ‘publish’ to make it go live.

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Click on ‘Settings’ to set you up your site

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Click on ‘edit’

1. Choose your site name2. Choose a description

3. Choose the URL (what will people have to type into the address bar?)

4. If you want to get your own domain, like clairewardle.com do that

here.

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You can also change the design of your site by clicking on ‘theme my site’.

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Look at the different designs until you find one you like.

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When you’re on your site, click on the small arrow on the top right hand side.

When you click, this will appear. Click on ‘manage’ and it will take you to the dashboard where you

can make changes, add content etc.