This document provides instructions for setting up and using a Posterous blog or group site. It explains that you can choose a "site" for a public blog or "group" for a private space. It outlines how to post content by simply emailing text, photos, videos or audio to your site's address. The document also provides steps for customizing the site name, URL, design theme, and managing the dashboard.

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

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

3. 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.

4. As well as just emailing your updates to the site,
you can post directly from the website, by clicking
on ‘post by web’.

5. 1. Make sure you give your entry a title.
2. If you want to write text, write here. Or if you 3. Click on ‘upload image,
want to add a caption to photos, video or audio, audio, video and docs’ to
add it here. upload material from your
computer.
4. Click ‘publish’ to make it go live.

6. Click on ‘Settings’ to set you up your site

7. Click on ‘edit’
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1. Choose your site name
2. Choose a description
3. Choose the URL (what will people
have to type into the address bar?)
4 4. If you want to get your own
domain, like clairewardle.com do that
here.

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

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

10. 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.