LongLostCousins.com

Welcome Cousins!

New website!  This one should be alot easier to use and seems a lot faster.  It doesn't have all the same bells and whistles but for the stuff that people keep asking about (blogs, pictures) it should be just about perfect. 

Getting Started
To get started, just click the "Join" link up at the top and fill out the form.  That will send me an email so I'll set up a username and password, plus blog and photo gallery for you.

Blogs
The blogs are pretty standard fare but are pretty simple to use - they work just like any other blog, but have a few hings to make it easier:

• Email directly to your blog.  The guys who made this website also have another one that lets you post to your blog by sending an email.  Go to http://www.blogmailr.com/ and sign up for an account.  Give it the blog address I gave you and it will give a special email address that will make those emails show up on your blog.
• If you use MS Word 2007, you can also post to your blog directly from MS Word.  You have to set up Word the first time to tell it where your blog is, but after that it's just a mouse-click away, like printing or saving.  This makes it easy to write a long post, or do it when you're not online.

Photo Galleries
Sites like Flickr and Picassa are so easy to use and have so many features that they're probably much better places to put photos, but there's galleries in here if you want to use them.  You can also use the "Blog This" button in Flickr to have them post to your blog.  And there's a way to have your photos from one of those sites show up here, so if you like the idea of just sending out one link it's kind of like having it all in one place.

Feeds
All the blogs and galleries can but put on a single RSS feed so if you use Pageflakes, Google IG or whatever customizable homepage, you can see all the changes on this site on your homepage. 

Anyway, let me know if you'd like to see anything else!

Todd & Meg

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