This Web Wednesday I am going to write about an option that I was not even aware existed until yesterday. Even though I have registered my domain name "Tech-Weekly" and run a simple tech web page currently I still rely on Google's Blogger to host my site. And one of the biggest gripes that I have had for awhile is that you cannot do any type of future posting via Blogger. I had to resort to using a service called Lettermelater.com which is a pre-email service. And by using this service and the option to post to your Blogger page via email I have been able to write my posts early and then set them to email from Lettermelater.com. This works okay but it is a lot of extra steps and if you make a little glitch in copying your HTML code over to be emailed then it does not post correctly. Also doing it this way does not allow for adding any labels to your post so if you want to keep the information of your site grouped together correctly you have to go back after the post and add them. So I stumbled across Blogger in draft, from a posting on their blog post when I was looking for something else and the first thing I see in their most resent post is that by using Blogger in draft instead of your normal Blogger login you have access to many different services or choices that are I guess in the Beta stage. First among the the ability to choose a future post date and time for your posting. I have tried it and it works great. 
Simply choose the date and time at the bottom of your post after you have clicked the down arrow for "Post Options" and that is it. Other things that you can do from this login vs. the other are as follows: Just to name a few. So if you are a user of Blogger give it a try and let me know what you think. Also I have not yet figured out how to tie Blogger in draft to be able to post from Windows Live Writer. Any suggestions on how to do that would be greatly appreciated. Labels: Web Wednesday
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