Posterous Closes The Gap On Other Blogging Platforms
Some time ago I wrote a piece about how people wanted to have a professional blog presence on the web should opt for a professionally hosted site with WordPress and not bother with the emerging free sites such as Tumblr and Posterous.
While I still stick to that, Posterous has made some significant advances in the facilities it offers and is redrawing the line between the two styles of blogging hosts. Not least of these advances is the ability to migrate your complete old blog to Posterous which is something I won’[t be doing because I don’t think that Posterous currently has the ability to cope with the design of Web2 and More, but at this rate it won’t be long!
So what is new on the the Posterous front?
- Add your own pages: Fancy an About Me page, somewhere to plonk your contact details and the like, just create them from within you your browser and Posterous even adds a home page automatically.
- Redirects: Posterous now allows you to create a page that redirects to a static URL. You may want to do this if you want to add a link to one of your social networks, or to a page. To do this, simply click on the “Page Options” tab, and add a URL where it says “Redirect to:”. When your visitors click on a link to a redirect page, they will be redirected to the URL you specified.
- New post editor: Posterous has added a simple but powerful new post editor that lets you post any combination of photos, music, video and docs, and intersperse them with text in any order you want. There are no limitations that force you to choose whether a post is for photos, video, embeds or anything else.
- Posterous goes mobile: Visitors on mobile devices such as iPhones or Droids will see these mobile-optimized blog pages. Posterous optimises all of your uploaded media for smaller screens by resizing your image galleries and videos so that viewers on smaller screens can have the best experience possible.
- Commenting moderation: If someone drops by your page and calls you a total tosser you now have the ability to remove or other moderate that comment.
Now none of this will make me transfer my site to Posterous, but the gap between Posterous and other more complex blogging platforms is narrowing.
Kevin Tea
Kevin Tea is a journalist and marketing communications professional who has worked for some of the leading blue chip companies in the UK and Europe. In the 1990s he became interested in how emerging Internet-based technologies could change the way that people worked and became an administrator on the Telework Europa Forum on CompuServe. With other colleagues he took part in a four year European Commission sponsored project to look at the way that the Internet could benefit remote communities. His blog is a resource for SMEs who want to use cloud computing and Web 2.0 technologies.
Kevin Tea is a journalist and marketing communications professional who has worked for some of the leading blue chip companies in the UK and Europe. In the 1990s he became interested in how emerging Internet-based technologies could change the way that people worked and became an administrator on the Telework Europa Forum on CompuServe. With other colleagues he took part in a four year European Commission sponsored project to look at the way that the Internet could benefit remote communities. His blog is a resource for SMEs who want to use cloud computing and Web 2.0 technologies. ...less info
