Posting
Posting Ideas and workarounds and a spell check tip --
As of today, it was announced that you can now post to your TBlog via email, cell phone, or PDA.
You must follow specific instructions so make sure you read and understand before trying it out.
How to post from email, cell phone, or PDA. (This service has been discontinued due to lack of use - link disabled due to post being removed.)
Now onto just posting in general for those not savvy enough to do the above or just don't want to bother with more technology for easy postings.
There are a few complaints/issues about posting here --
1. Lost posts when the system has a glitch. (Common every where really.)
2. You start to write a post and you get interrupted (phone, snack, bathroom, dog, guests, etc) th en you must save on your notepad or Word Program.
3. If you have saved a post on one computer (yours), you have no access on another computer (EX: at work or school) to retrieve then post your blog entry.
Items #2 and #3 are a result of TBlog not having a save draft feature on site.
We still all love our TBlog though, let us look at some remedies.
So here are a couple of solutions to tinker with:
1. If you have a free email account -Ya-Hoo, Hot-Mail, Goo-gle, etc., create your post in that account then save as a draft or just email it to yourself in the same account. Then you can retrieve it, copy and paste it then publish. If you email it to yourself, you can put it in its own folder.
2. Use another free service (sorry, can't mention the competitors), that allows you to save drafts or posts. Make that account a private one that only you can view. Retrieve, copy and paste your post from there.
After you create your post, BEFORE you send it, it is a wise practice to copy it in case the system here has a glitch and your post is lost in cyberspace.
Having a backup copy of your site or blog is not a bad idea. Many people do this.
I had to do this with my site because the original one, still standing, ended up with the managers abandoning it and it got spammed with ads.
I keep copies of my posts in three places, here, there/somewhere, and on my puter. It is a lot of work but I do it in steps after each posting.
Spell Check tip for your own postings or postings on other people's blogs --
If you have a spell check button on the top tool bar, you just need to click it on after you have written your post.
The spell check will run and your corrections will be highlighted.
Just click on the correction/s you wish to make.
In a regular blog entry post, your entire entry may have a colored background.
You will need to click off the spell check feature to make the color go away and then you are ready to post/publish your entry or reply.
Thanks for visiting.
Comments or other ideas welcomed.
