One of our favorite startups of 2009, Posterous, has received a major update…Themes!
Up until now, the site has offered just the one clean Posterous theme, and whilst it did the job, for the majority of internet users used to customizing profiles and blogs, it just didn’t cut it. Themes have always been high on the list of priorities for the San Francisco based YCombinator startup, but it’s been a long time coming. Today, that changes, and Tumblr should be knocking their knees because this takes one giant bite out of their USP.
The details:
- Users can select from 5 built-in themes, including one designed by blog theme designer Bill Israel
- Theme designers can allow users to select colors and upload a header image, no coding required
- Advanced users who want to fully customize using HTML/CSS absolutely can. Our templating engine is custom written and supports Tumblr theme formats!
- Thousands of beautiful Tumblr themes now can be used on Posterous blogs!
- Tumblr themes don’t have commenting and favoriting, but it’s trivial 2 or 3 lines to add that capability
- People who want to switch from Tumblr can do so easily at http://posterous.com/import
- More themes are on their way — we wanted to get this functionality out as soon as it was ready. Theme Garden is also coming in the very near future.
- Users can try it RIGHT NOW by going to their Site Settings page.
Note quite ready, I get this when I select to set a theme: Not ready for you yet — but coming soon! If this was shown in error, please contact garry@posterous.com. :-(
No time right now, but I’ve got the ability to customize!
This really improves the Posterous experience, great stuff!
I had no problem using themes. When you get error, just go back an click customize button again or simply reload.
Cory, I like the theme you have for your posterous, any chance you’ll release the code as a free theme? I know that the Dakhar theme provided by posterous is similar, but yours is so much cooler!
Thanks.
Quickcomment. i like it