Saturday, December 13, 2008

Post282 is a place where you can create and run your own private community websites

What Company Is Offering:
Post282 is a place where you can create and run your own private community websites for chatting with friends, sharing images and movies, posting links to cool stuff you find on the web, and a whole bunch of other stuff! Creating your community is free and takes about 15 seconds!

How It Works:
Post282 lets you upload your own images and place them in your posts. However, we currently don't permit uploading of videos to the site (assuming your community is hosted on Post282.com, rather than a customized installation). This is simply in order to reduce the amount of bandwidth they use each month.

However, you can upload your videos to other sites and then link to them in your posts. Modern video hosting sites (YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, and so on) let you upload your videos, and then embed them into your own website using embed code.
To add videos to your posts, simply copy the embed code from the site where the video is hosted, and paste it into the 'Add Video' box on the Create Post page.

To make it even easier, for YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, or iFilm videos, you can just copy the link to the page the video is on (copy from the address bar at the top of your browser), and paste it into the 'Add Video' box on the Create Post page.

There are two ways to add images to your posts:

First, you can copy a link to the image into the 'Image' box on the Create Post page, and then press the 'Add Image' button. The image should then appear in the textarea below. To get a link to an image you see on the web, either right-click on it and select 'Copy Shortcut' (IE Users), or right-click on it and select 'Copy Image Location' (Firefox users). You can then paste the copied link into the Image box. However, the practice of hot-linking to images on other people's websites is not encouraged. This is because you will be using their bandwidth to display images on your community website.

The second approach is preferable. First, save the image you want to post onto your computer. Then, on the Create Post page click on the 'Browse' button, find the image you want to upload, and click 'OK'. Then click on the 'Begin Upload' button. A copy of your image will then be transferred to the Post282 servers, and once the upload has completed, a link to the image will appear in the 'Image' box. Select whether you want the image to be Small, Medium, or Large in your post (you can resize the image anyway, once you've added it to the post), and click on the 'Add Image' button.

More at:http://www.post282.com/

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