I’m still trying to figure out the best way to post content to the web.
Details follow. Warning: Technobabble ahead!
I publish on this blog, Twitter, Facebook — all that social stuff. And I’ve read some very good arguments for POSSE: Publish On [your own] Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.
(In short, the idea is “Don’t drop different content all over social media like Easter eggs; instead, invest that material in your own site, then lead people there with social media links.”)
I know this bugs some folks who don’t like to see the same message appearing in multiple locations. I’m a bit like that: If there’s too much repetition, I’ll unsubscribe from all sources save one.
If you’re one of those people, I’m fine if you do that with me.
Thing is, this site is my archive, and the content here belongs to me. And if I POSSE, then hame.land isn’t some tumbleweed town, but the central showcase of my efforts.
The challenge is that I created my site in Serif’s WebPlus. Yes, it has a truly horrific interface — a dog’s breakfast, and that dog is named “Windows ME”. Seriously, look:
But — big ‘but’ — it lets me lay out my pages exactly as I want them to look. Except the blog solution in WebPlus is: let’s say “wanting”, so I put a WordPress blog on my server and basically cut a hole in the site so that WordPress blog would show through.
It’s not ideal, but it works.
Again, except: when WordPress POSSEs links across my various social media accounts, it links to the WordPress blog. So you’re not seeing the website frame around the blog, just the raw blog.
So I’ve got to figure out some way to keep it automated, but make sure that links go to my real site, not the stripped-down WordPress shell. If This Then That, maybe?