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You have to register on this site to be able to add a news article. You can either email the article as a plain text document to
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, or use the online form to submit it. If you use the online form you will be able to add images, and format the document as you prefer.
Email plain text (txt) documents to:
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If you choose to use the online form, please follow these steps to add an article. The article will be approved by the site administrator before being published on the site. Please note that the online form will timeout if left unattended for 30minutes.
- Click the 'Submit a News Story' link on the left hand side menu, of the 'News' section.
- If you are not logged in already, you will receive a error message, saying 'You are not authorised to view this resource'. You have to login using the 'Login' section on the left hand side menu.
- If you have not created an account, you should click on the 'Create an account' link.
- If you are creating a new account, you will have to activate your account by clicking on the link in the email sent to you, when creating your account.
- Once you have an account, enter the username and password and click the 'Login' button.
- Enter a title for the article.
- Enter some text, which forms the body of the article.
- If you want to add a link, use the Icon that looks like an chain link. First type the text which you would like to add a link to, select it, and then click the icon. A pop-up box will appear, where you can enter the link URL, which is the page that you want to link to. Click the 'Insert' button to add the link.
- If you want to add an image, you should use the 'Image' button underneath the text area. Please do *not* use the image icon with a tree on it, it can only be use to link to a picture which is already on the internet.
- Make sure that your images are an appropriate size. The larger the image, the longer it takes to load the page, and you cannot resize the images once they are uploaded. The maximum suggested width is 700 pixels, and the maximum file size 150Kb.
- Place the cursor in the place you would like to place the image, click the image button. A pop-up will appear. in the bottom right hand corner, you can upload a image from your computer by clicking the 'Choose File' button. Once you have selected the image, you need to click the 'Start Upload' button to upload it to the server. After that you can select the image, using an icon on the top section of the pop up. Once you click the image icon you want, the Image URL text field will be filled in, under the icons, and you can complete the process by clicking the blue 'Insert' button link on the top right hand side.
- if you choose to align the image to the 'right' in the pop-up, you will be able to write next to the image, where as, if it is not set, or set to 'left' you will not be able to write next to it, you will have to write underneath it.
- Once you have finished editing the article, you can save it by pressing the 'Save' button, in the top right hand side of the page. Please be careful that everything is correct before pressing save, because you will not get a chance to edit the article, until after it is published.
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