Tumblr is a hybrid blogging application and microblogging tool. It enables you to publish short posts that contain images, text, audio, or video which aren't as long as traditional blog posts but aren't as short as Twitter updates. The Tumblr community of users can reblog your content on their own Tumblelogs or share your content on Twitter with the click of the mouse.
Tumblr is a re-envisioning of tumblelogging, a subset of blogging that uses quick and mixed-media posts. The service hopes to do for the tumblelog what services like LiveJournal or Blogger did for the blog. The difference is that its extreme simplicity will make luring users a far easier task than acquiring users for traditional weblogging. Anytime a user sees something interesting online, they can click a quick “Share on Tumblr” bookmarklet that then tumbles the snippet directly. The result is varied string of media ranging links and text to pictures and videos that takes very little time and effort to maintain.
Tumblr is completely free to use. You can publish your content with no bandwith or storage limits. You can also modify your Tumblelog's design, publish group blogs, and use a custom domain without paying anything to Tumblr to do it.
Tumblr works with seven types of post; text, photo, quote, link, chat, audio and video, and it handles them all very well.
Tumblr Dashboard Image Sizes:
Tumblr is a re-envisioning of tumblelogging, a subset of blogging that uses quick and mixed-media posts. The service hopes to do for the tumblelog what services like LiveJournal or Blogger did for the blog. The difference is that its extreme simplicity will make luring users a far easier task than acquiring users for traditional weblogging. Anytime a user sees something interesting online, they can click a quick “Share on Tumblr” bookmarklet that then tumbles the snippet directly. The result is varied string of media ranging links and text to pictures and videos that takes very little time and effort to maintain.
Tumblr is completely free to use. You can publish your content with no bandwith or storage limits. You can also modify your Tumblelog's design, publish group blogs, and use a custom domain without paying anything to Tumblr to do it.
Tumblr works with seven types of post; text, photo, quote, link, chat, audio and video, and it handles them all very well.
Tumblr Dashboard Image Sizes:
- Photo post: 500 by 750 pixels for dashboard view; 1280 by 1920 pixels for high-res version (except for superwide panoramas).
- Photoset: 500-pixel width for one image in a photoset row. 245-pixel width for two images in a photoset row. 160-pixel width for three images in a photoset row. Gutters are 10 pixels.
- Audio Post: 169 by 169 pixels for album art.
- Link Post: 130 by 130 pixels for the thumbnail image grabbed by Tumblr from web link (if available).
- Text Post: 125-pixel width for images added to a text post, which expand when clicked.
- Avatar: 64-by-64-pixel icon next to posts.
Tumblr make it extremely offer for you to post to your blog, even if you can’t access your homepage yourself. Here are some of the clever ways Tumblr makes it possible for you to update your tumbleblog:
Other important features
- Info - This allows you to specify the basic information of your blog; things like your blog title, description, and avatar picture. The notable option here though, is the ability to change your tumbleblog url instantly, or even use your own personal domain allowing you to use a domain without the tumblr.com suffix.
- Appearance – This allows you to make quick changes to your current theme. Not every theme has appearance options, but the default Tumblr theme certainly does, and allows you to change things such as font’s, colour’s, and background images without touching any code; anther thing that makes Tumblr so popular for those that are not so comfortable delving into code.
- Theme – This menu item is fairly self-explanatory; it allows you to select a theme from Tumblr’s “theme garden” to use for your blog. There are over 300 of them, all for free, some of which are of an impressive quality. As well as using a premade theme though, you are given the option to use “custom html”, another way of saying your own custom-made theme, something we will go through in great detail at a later date.
- Pages – This allows you to create static pages, much like other blogging platforms such as wordpress. Pages come in three categories; Standard Layout, Custom Layout, and Redirect.
- Community – This allows you to add, as the title dictates, a community element to your blog. There are to ways to do this. One is the creation of a page that allows your readers to ask you questions, and the other allows your users to contribute their own posts to your submission queue for approval by you
- Advanced – The final menu item features further options for your blog that don’t really fit into the other categories. These are things like your timezone, url slug structure, privacy options, post’s per page, and so on.
You can publish text, photos (including high resolution photos), videos, links, audio, slideshows, and more to your Tumblelog. Tumblr offers a variety of great publishing features that make it easy for you to publish any kind of content to your Tumblelog, including:
- Text your blog updates from any mobile phone
- Email your updates via one of the most sophisticated email publishing platform available.
- A Bookmarklet allows you to post anything and everything you come across while browsing the web.
- Post via AIM by messaging TumblrBot.
- Phone your TumblrBlog, and leave voice posts.
- Automatically post from any other site or profile.
- Use the official Tumblr iPhone app to easily update your blog.
- Third Party App’s expand your options even further.
Other important features
- Easily add any analytics tracking code you want to your tumbleblog
- Tubmlr is optimised for Google in everything from the site slugs, to the sitemap
- Built in privacy allows you to restrict specific posts, or your whole blog to certain people
- The ability to use your own custom domains on your tumbleblog
- FeedBurner support allows you to see important RSS feed stats
- It’s free, and you don’t need to pay for hosting, or storage!
- You have the ability to create your own custom theme.
- Info - This allows you to specify the basic information of your blog; things like your blog title, description, and avatar picture. The notable option here though, is the ability to change your tumbleblog url instantly, or even use your own personal domain allowing you to use a domain without the tumblr.com suffix.
- Appearance – This allows you to make quick changes to your current theme. Not every theme has appearance options, but the default Tumblr theme certainly does, and allows you to change things such as font’s, colour’s, and background images without touching any code; anther thing that makes Tumblr so popular for those that are not so comfortable delving into code.
- Theme – This menu item is fairly self-explanatory; it allows you to select a theme from Tumblr’s “theme garden” to use for your blog. There are over 300 of them, all for free, some of which are of an impressive quality. As well as using a premade theme though, you are given the option to use “custom html”, another way of saying your own custom-made theme, something we will go through in great detail at a later date.
- Pages – This allows you to create static pages, much like other blogging platforms such as wordpress. Pages come in three categories; Standard Layout, Custom Layout, and Redirect.
- Community – This allows you to add, as the title dictates, a community element to your blog. There are to ways to do this. One is the creation of a page that allows your readers to ask you questions, and the other allows your users to contribute their own posts to your submission queue for approval by you
- Advanced – The final menu item features further options for your blog that don’t really fit into the other categories. These are things like your timezone, url slug structure, privacy options, post’s per page, and so on.
You can publish text, photos (including high resolution photos), videos, links, audio, slideshows, and more to your Tumblelog. Tumblr offers a variety of great publishing features that make it easy for you to publish any kind of content to your Tumblelog, including:
- Publish to your Tumblelog from email.
- Publish to your Tumblelog via a text message from your mobile phone.
- Publish audio posts to your Tumblelog via phone.
- Schedule your posts to publish in the future.
- Use the handy bookmarklet to instantly share anything you see online via your Tumblelog.
- Keep your entire Tumblelog or certain posts private.