Afrigator - Getting Started

We had a cool discussion about internet users and how they sometimes struggle to grasp usability and functionality that is so obvious to geeks. The ONLY way to overcome that is to show people what exactly it is and how to use it.

Introducing Afrigator! Killer stuff! But what exactly is Afrigator?

“Afrigator is a social media aggregator and directory built especiallyfor African digital citizens who publish and consume content on theWeb. We would like to see it become your choice for African socialmedia in one place, in one bite.”

Say WHAT?! OK, here is the deal: It is a web site that collects and displays web pages (or blog posts) from all over Africa in one place. It is called “social media” because you can participate and rate content on the site, or if you have a blog going somewhere, you can register and allow Afrigator to collect your blog posts.
I’ve been on the tutorial spree once more and here is a simple screenshot tutorial to explain how to use it. The basics, basically.
A couple of things you need to be aware of before you start. If you are not sure what a “tag” or “tag word” is, please read this post first!

Next up, the tutorials:

To view the tutorial in HTML, click here.

To download an PDF document with the screenshots, click here.

I’m planning a series. The next one in the series will explain to you how to subscribe and more importantly, how to get your RSS Feeds in there so Afrigator can collect your content. (Don’t stress, if you don’t know what a RSS Feed is, we’ll explain that too!)

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10 Comments to "Afrigator - Getting Started"

• Justin Hartman said: On 04/17/2007 at 12:16 am

  Nice one dude. Awesome work!!! You are becoming the regular Web2.0 tutorial guy

• Justin Hartman said: On 04/17/2007 at 12:17 am

  PS. I’m sending my cousin here cause she aint got a clue what this Afrigator business is… Hopefully she’ll comment here!

• Stii said: On 04/17/2007 at 12:17 am

  Hehe, sure thing mate!

• Susan (Justin's cousin!) said: On 04/17/2007 at 3:17 am

  How can you say I don’t have a clue? Okay…I admit. I don’t have much of a clue, but I have a blog…surely that counts as something?

  Seriously, Stii, I’m signing up. Need to know this thing that’s taking Africa by storm, created by my favourite cousin…

  See you on the site!

  Susan xxx

• Tyler said: On 04/18/2007 at 8:14 am

  Awesome tutorial. Just thought I’d let you know that you have 4 unread gmails.

• Gino Cosme said: On 04/19/2007 at 6:09 pm

  Great stuff. Keep them coming (and help fellow Susans

• stii.za.net » Blog Archive » A "getting started” site said: On 04/24/2007 at 6:10 am

  [...] I have made a getting started guide to Afrigator. Jason Bagley did a similar post about Amatomu. One real problem is that people feel intimidated [...]

• Greg said: On 07/17/2007 at 8:05 pm

  Hi Stii
  Was wondering if you have removed or just moved the tutorials from the links in this post??

  I receive “Error 404 - Not Found : Sorry, The page cannot be found…” on both the html link, and also the PDF link.

  Would love to read them if you still have them available.
  Cheers

• ray said: On 11/24/2007 at 5:00 pm

  I am new to this blogging and do not even know how to get an article onto my blog -pleez help.

  Thanx

• Nico Kleynhans said: On 11/25/2007 at 5:37 am

  http://beta.afrigator.com/confirm.php?confirm=28687f49935e2055f9a277257108d3c5

  I get this error message and do not know what to do about it. Can anyone help?

Spit it out!

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