The blog is the most versatile and user-friendly place on Multiply. If you have a recent version of the most common browsers (Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, IE) you should see a toolbar just below the item title that allows you to modify the text style and do other things in your entry. The toolbar looks like this (click to enlarge):



I will explain what the buttons labeled with numbers in the above pic do:

1. You can add a pic to your blog entry. When you click on it, it will display another window where you can choose to import a pic from your computer (upload it), use one from one of your albums (Photos entries) or from somewhere in the Internet:



After that, you should see a box where you can choose the justification: left, center or right. Click on the one you want to use and the image is added to your post.

Tip: if you add an image to the beginning of the entry and align it to the right or to the left, a thumbnail will be displayed in your homepage after you publish the entry if your Blog box is set to 'Summary' view.


2. When you click on the checkbox named 'Edit HTML' you can see the HTML code used in the entry. Then you can fine tune your entry if you want or you can add those widgets from the web, like a slideshow, a movie or even a song player. Sites like YouTube and Slide give an EMBED code that you can use at other places (Multiply does it too: click on the share link found in most posts), and you can add it to your blog entries after you click on 'Edit HTML': just find the spot you want to place it and paste the code.
Another tip: you can compose an blog entry, click on 'Edit HTML', copy the code and then paste it anywhere in Multiply, like in your other entries and replies. Think of it like an HTML editor, where you create your stuff and then get the code to paste where you don't have these handy tools.


3. The paper-clip allows you to add attachments to your blog entry. The file will be listed below the entry for downloading. Great for sharing PDF, PPT, PPS files etc. You can add up to 5 attachments to a blog entry.


The rest of the buttons in the toolbar are self-explanatory, just mouse over them and wait a bit to see what they do, like the icon to the left of the paper-clip is for adding polls to your blogs.


Hope this helps. Happy Multiplying.

On Multiply, you can not only blog, share photos and videos, but if you've got sound files to share (such as the kids singing Happy Birthday to grandma or maybe your teen's piano recital) you can share that as well.

What kinds of music files can I share?
You can upload the following types of music files to your Multiply site: mp3, m4a, wma, wav, aac, ogg, aif and au.

Please be aware that sharing someone else's copyrighted music is illegal and prohibited on Multiply, per the Terms of Service.


How to add a music player (Multiply built-in Flash player) to your homepage:

1) Go to your main page and click on Customize My Site (or go to Settings -> My Site) and click on the Edit link on your Welcome Message box. You may also use the link bellow:
http://multiply.com/setup/pages/content

2) Click on the check box beside Play music on my homepage and choose a playlist with only MP3. The playlist must be also public (access level set to 'Everyone'). There is a remind about it if you mouse over the question mark beside the playlist drop-down menu.

3) All set. =)


Some info about music on Multiply:

- the song info displayed in the playlists (song name, artist, album) come from the info embedded in the file (ID3 tags) and cannot be edit after the file is uploaded.

- the built-in music player in the main page (for those who set i up, obviously) will show up only to Multiply member who are logged in. It means that it won't appear to non-member or when you look at your page as an 'anonymous' user.

- in the same way, the download links in the Music posts will only work for Multiply members.

So, if you can't see the player when you are not logged in, don't panic, it's not a bug.


Update1:
- the built-in Flash player that you can add to your main page won't auto-play anymore, so one has to click on the Play button to actualy hear the music.
- the download links were removed: only who has uploaded the files (site owner) and created the post can download them.

This may change in the future, but there is no word about when it would. I will update this post if it does

Important Note on Music: Once you have uploaded music, you cannot delete it.  You can delete the post (playlist) the music was uploaded to, but you cannot delete the music file itself.  You can even edit the post and select or deselect the musics in the playlist, but you cannot remove the songs from the selection list (that you see while you're in edit mode).