Rather than simply archive and back up my writing by uploading into my Google documents every few weeks, as I usually do, as an experiment I just put the latest batch as a public Google site at http://sites.google.com/site/hervibratorbuzzingandstud/ as a book, Her vibrator buzzing and studded with quibbles continually reminds her, Love and other Selected Poems Oct. 2, 2009-Oct. 25, 2009. It's very rudimentary, and doublespaces everything annoyingly (can probably fix that, don't know), but what the heck. Do peope use a similar/better online sites for archiving and/or making their writing accessible? --Tom

Ha! I get an "adult content warning" when I try to access that page. Dare I proceed.

;)

No, as you know, I'm pretty toothless. Just don't want Citizens for Only Pablum on the Web to picket my house and scare the trick-or-treaters.

Hey I looked.  It's harmless. 
Love the title though --
who can resist a buzzing vibrator and her stud? 

Oh I meant to actually add something to this convo.  When you say archiving what exactly do you mean?  Other than like posting to a website or something.  What are you looking for?

And are you looking for something different from a blog, maybe easier?  Or are you interested in building your own website?

I don't want to build too much of anything, but would like to be able to upload a 40-page Word doc with multiple poems into a blog that has an attractive book-like look with facing pages rather than this insane scrolling down and down and down and down, which is really unsuited for long poems with short lines...

I love the idea of a blog but don't like them as well as I liked Msn websites, which no longer exist, for the very reason you're talking about.

I still use Yahoo websites to store and display stuff.  Have you seen one?

And by build, I just mean add stuff to.

Yes, I've seen Yahoo - similar to Google sites. I guess what I want is free, wonderfully flexible but easy-to-use online book publishing site. I don't know what Kindle or whatever looks like when you read a book of poems on it, but maybe something like that.

I think you want an adobe site.  When you open up Jay's links to Clock Radio, what do you use?

Yes, maybe that's it! Jay's opens as pdf, so probably adobe. How do you set up an adobe site? Tom

You don't really set up an adobe site, you need to convert your .doc file into a .pdf file which is an adope file. Then you store the file online by uploading it anywhere. The URL would http://yourdomain.com/thefilename.pdf

You need a copy of Adobe Acrobat (standard, pro, or enterprise, not the Reader product). With that, you can create PDFs. I believe you can also use Foxit to create PDFs. Foxit, I think, is free. If that's not the case, the open source PDFCreator may work.

Thank you, Jay! Will check these out.  Tom

From what I understand you have to have a domain to do what you're talking about Casey.  Don't think Tom has one.  I don't.  I don't like paying for them.

I actually worded my suggestion wrong.  Better said:  set up a domain or website using adobe.

Tom you sent me a pdf file one time, so I know you know or have the means to do that .

Frustration is a sign of genius.  Or is that insecurity?  Can't remember.

cheryl

Casey, how do you convert doc to pdf, none of my "save as" menus include pdf. Jay suggested a couple possible sites that might do this, but is there a simple way right on laptop? Thanks, Tom

If you have an PDF creator installed, don't look in the Save As dialog box. Look in the Print dialog box. Open Print, and then select the PDF writer as the output device.

Thank you. I will get back to this, install the free pdf, try the printing etc. --Tom

Just a thought, Tom, but do you want your stuff publically available if you're submitting?  Maggie

Yes, Maggie. I archive it anyway, so want to also make it available to anyone who wants to read. As it is, I don't submit, otherwise. Tom