|
Written by Valerie Holifield
|
|
Friday, 20 January 2006 |
To submit information directly to stegenevieve.net, you should be first registered and logged in at the website. Secondly, you need to have the proper permissions to access the submission pages. For this, you will need to be manually promoted to author/contributor. Please email the webmaster to get promoted, be sure and include information about what you'd like to submit and specifically state that you'd like to submit it directly to the website.
After all that is finished, you will be able to access the submit forms which are compiled on the registered user's menu page. Here is a break down of the forms you can access with some of the subcategories under them:
- News
- Cemeteries
- Census
- Documents
- Biographies (printed elsewhere and/or extensive)
- General Documents
- Funeral Cards
- Newspaper Articles
- Obituaries
- Other Documents
- Wills
- History
- Flood Information
- Genealogies
- Historical Buildings
- Places (towns, etc.)
- Wartime Information
- Misc.
After accessing the form of the main category you want, there are several fields to enter in:
Main Boxes
-- Title - enter a descriptive yet short-as-possible title for your item.
-- Category - this is a drop-down box with appropriate options
-- Intro Text (Required) - typically this is where I write all info for a page, skipping the below box.
-- Main Text (Optional) - writing in this box will cause your article to have a "read more" link from whatever is "intro text" to here.
Tabbed Area
-- Images
Adding images may be the most complicated part of the process and if you are uncomfortable doing this, we can always add them for you.
To add images straight from the submit form, they must first be on the webserver - only the web administrator can do this. If you have images you need to add to your posts, please email me at webmaster at stegenevieve dot net and I will upload the images.
Next, you would select your image folder from the drop down box. The images in that folder will appear under "Gallery Images." To add one to a post, click on it in that area and then pick "insert," the image will be moved over to the box titled "Content Images." Order your images in that box by clicking on them and picking "up" and "down" until they're in the order you want. Then, while typing in the content boxes, if you click the orange I button (as previously mentioned) it will add a code that is something like [mosimage]. Use as many of those in your post for as many images you have. The order they are in the "Content Images" box is the order they will appear on the page. As for the rest of that in the images tab, I would not worry about any of it.
-- Publishing
Unless you are an administrator or publisher, chances are you will not have to worry about any of this. This section contains the option for if the item appears on the main page or not, the time it was posted, expiration date (not necessary on this site), who posted it, what order it will appear in with other items in the same category, and whether or not it's published to the world or viewable only by the authors and users of higher levels.
-- Metadata
Another thing you don't have to worry about, this part is completely optional. This section is mostly used by search engines although from time to time there may be a part of the site that uses this. You may enter a description in the description box if you like and/or enter in keywords in the keywords box. For the keywords, please separate them by commas.
Finally, save your entry at the top right of the page, the little image that looks like a floppy disk! (The x is for cancel.)
Your entry will be saved and unpublished. You should be able to navigate to the section you put your entry in and click on a little heart-like image to edit it some more. An email is sent to the administrator that you've added an entry and I will soon visit it, check it over, and publish to the site.
I think that's mostly it, if you have more questions, please post in our discussion forums or email me!!
|
|
Last Updated ( Saturday, 22 July 2006 )
|
Help/FAQ 
