Photo blogging for beginners with Posterous.
Workshop: Tuesday 15 November 2011 (3.30 to 5 pm).
In a nutshell.
How to make your own website with photos and anything else you want to put there – and do it all just by sending emails.
About blogs.
A ‘blog’ is name for a certain kind of website. Most blogs have content that is regularly updated. For example, this Agewell Computer Club website is a blog – though most blogs have personal content, owned by people who use them to express their own thoughts, opinions, experiences – and very often now, to put photographs on the World Wide Web – we call that photo blogging.
About Posterous.
Posterous is a free blogging resource. Here are some other things we like about it …
- It’s easy.
It’s easy to register, set up and maintain as a personal site. We think it is suitable for beginners. It makes photo blogging very easy. - Posting by email.
We can add content simply by sending an email to a special email address. The email creates a new post so that:- the email subject becomes the post title,
- the email message becomes the content of the post,
- and images attached to the email are inserted in the post.
Anyone who has an email account anywhere can make a Posterous blog without learning anything new.
- Themes.
It’s easy to change what our site looks like. For example, the slideshow on the right shows our demo photo blog in 11 different themes. The content hasn’t changed at all, but the way it is presented can be changed at any time. - Privacy controls.
If we want to, we can make our Posterous site private for friends or family only. - Autoposting to other sites.
We can connect Posterous to our account at Facebook (and many other social media sites) so that anything we post to Posterous appears on our Facebook page.
More about our demo photo blog.
The demo blog is called Holiday in Hackney. It didn’t take very long to make it. We did all of it just by sending email attachments to the Posterous site.
Photos and other files.
Links to videos.
| Photo with links to more photos on the web.Photo with link to audio on the web. |
At the workshop.We will get you started with your own Posterous blog. Afterwards, of course, you can do what you like with it. It doesn’t have to be a photo blog, because there is so much else you could do with it. As always, if you need photos we will provide you with some that you can practice with – so you don’t have to bring your own. Much of the workshop will be help sending attachments. | Posterous links. |
